Anchor raised on new leg of long voyage

The visit of Premier Li Keqiang to Kenya, part of a trip that also takes in Angola, Ethiopia and Nigeria, holds great significance for both China-Kenya and China-Africa relations.

Fifty years ago, the late Chinese premier Zhou Enlai visited 10 African countries and put forward the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence and the Eight Principles of Foreign Aid, mapping out the guidelines of China's policy toward other developing countries, Africa included, and opening a new chapter of China-Africa relations.

Over the past 50 years, custodianship of the China-African friendship has been passed from generation to generation, China and Africa standing together through thick and thin, and supporting each other in even the most trying of circumstances.