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Editor’s Note: China is set to realize its target of eliminating absolute poverty by the end of this year. What are the factors behind China’s imminent success? In the ninth of a series of commentaries, a senior journalist of China Daily tries to find the answers: Talking about poverty alleviation …

China’s development is entering a new stage. This is the latest assessment made by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, on the future prospects of the world’s second-largest economy as it prepares economic and social development plans for the next five years. The next …

The Embassy of China in Rwanda, in partnership with the District of Gasabo and Rwanda China Alumni Organization (RCAO) on Thursday, August 27, donated foodstuff to 300 teachers most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic in Gasabo district. The support includes; 18 tonnes of food like rice, maize flour, beans, oil, …

Since the Extraordinary China-Africa Summit on Solidarity Against COVID-19 in June, China and Africa have maintained close coordination and deepened their cooperation in the fight against the novel coronavirus. The two sides have maintained frequent high-level political exchanges. President Xi Jinping has held telephone conversations with over 10 African leaders. …

This week, two stories appeared separately one on bbc.com news of August 25th August 2020, with a title, “Chinese phones with built-in malware sold in Africa. The second story was published by a US based website, BuzzFeed News of August 24th, 2020, with the tittle, ”Chinese- made smartphones are secretly …

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday stressed adopting a long-term perspective, grasping the trend of the times and extensively pooling wisdom to study new circumstances and make new plans. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made …

Chinese pharmaceutical company Fosun Pharma on Tuesday donated anti-malaria drugs to Kenya’s health ministry to boost the war against the tropical disease that is the leading cause of death among pregnant women and children below five years in the country. Rashid Aman, chief administrative secretary in the Ministry of Health, …

Studying the Belt and Road Initiative, after the fact that too few people in the West pay attention to it at all, a more striking disappointment is the fact that the Western media seem to have made up their collective minds on the subject with preconceptions and political bias. Much …

Central China’s Hunan Province opened a cocoa trading centre to connect Africa, the world’s leading cocoa producer, to China’s fast-growing appetite for chocolate. The African Cocoa Marketing Centre, established in Changsha, the provincial capital of Hunan, will start by selling cocoa mainly from Ghana before bringing in products from more …

Editor’s note: Tom Fowdy is a British political and international relations analyst and a graduate of Durham and Oxford universities. He writes on topics pertaining to China, the DPRK, Britain, and the U.S. The article reflects the author’s opinions, and not necessarily the views of CGTN. Despite unprecedented tensions between …