Sino-African ties dissected

China-Africa ties over the past three decades have yielded magnificent results, characterized by frequent high-level political visits, strengthened economic and trade relations and burgeoning bilateral socio-cultural communications.

But some Western countries and their media have been trying to drive a wedge between China and African countries, posing a potential threat to the harmonious development of Sino-African relations.

Western critics use the following viewpoints to justify their actions: First, Chinese investments flow into only Africa's mining industries or into countries with abundant natural resources. Second, Chinese enterprises do not fulfill their social responsibilities. Third, Chinese investors prevent their skills and technologies from being passed over to African societies. And last, the continuous influx of Chinese products to Africa is detrimental to the industrialization and modernization of the continent's countries.