China-Africa relations Illustration: Liu Rui/GTChinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Monday kicked off his official visits to five African countries - Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Botswana, Tanzania, and Seychelles. Sin
Children holding the national flags of China and Zambia participate in the completion ceremony of Access to Satellite TV for 10,000 African Villages Project in Zambia on June 13, 2019 (XINHUA)On January 7-13, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister W
Moussa Faki Mahamat (center), Chairperson of the AU Commission, greets the attendees after the AfCFTA agreement was signed in Kigali, Rwanda, on March 21, 2018 (XINHUA)The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement took effect on May 30. It is
Western countries continue to use China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a scapegoat for Africa's debt woes, claiming the initiative is nothing more than a "debt trap." However, debt risk in Africa has been a long-standing problem. Th
Foreign friends ask me: will China be more like the West in the future, or more like itself? Is the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) China’s own vision of world order?Why does the BRI value infrastructure? Infrastructure does not make money directly, nor do
With the further development of the "Belt and Road" Initiative (BRI), the scale of international investment and infrastructure construction between China and participating countries are continuously expanding. As a result, commercial and investm
The 2nd Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation will be held in Beijing on 25-27 April. Over the past few days, Pakistani leaders and relevant government authorities have been actively preparing for the summit. There are quite a lot of reports o
Serbia, being an important member state of the 17+1 cooperative mechanism, has seen a large amount of foreign direct investment from China in recent years as part of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).So far, the hallmark infrastructure project in
The vast majority of developing countries have long been marginalized in the process of the international rule-making process, and are in a passive state in international economic relations. In other words, they can only act accordingly after other major
The 2nd "Belt and Road" International Cooperation Forum will be held in Beijing late this month. Pakistan, China's all-round friend, is enthusiastically looking forward to the forum and is actively making all-round preparations.Imran Khan, P
