South Africa sees the meeting of Chinese and African leaders on Friday and Saturday as a chance to further consolidate relations through South-South cooperation, focusing on industrialization and regional economic integration, according to a senior diplomat.
First lady Peng Liyuan was greeted with a Chinese song, Looking for a Friend, while visiting an orphanage founded by her Zimbabwean counterpart, Grace Mugabe, during President Xi Jinping's two-day visit to the country.
China and African countries should not fail to take advantage of "unprecedented historical opportunities" for cooperation, Vice-Foreign Minister Zhang Ming said on Tuesday at the opening of the China-Africa Relations Roundtable conference in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Feng Li was in a buoyant mood after a record day of business.
President Xi Jinping said China will collaborate with Zimbabwe to further enhance the African nation's capacity for wildlife protection.
Shadrack Kapaito stood in the shade of the only tall tree outside Olasiti village, near Kenya's Amboseli National Park, and waited to greet his special guests.
Experts say Chinese agricultural demonstration centers have significantly helped train personnel and increase crop production, but their performance could be improved through a better understanding of African countries' needs and situations.
Chinese culture will gain popularity in Africa with increasing economic interaction between the two sides, creating a market for Chinese media content on the African continent, said Koos Bekker, chairman of the South African media company Naspers.
Though Africa's clean energy market faces roadblocks, such as insufficient infrastructure and financing channels, the continent is a gold mine for many Chinese companies due to its abundant solar and nuclear resources.
When Xi Jinping's entourage drove from the airport to downtown Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, tens of thousands of Zimbabweans and overseas Chinese clogged both sides of the highway, greeting the Chinese president with banners and flags.
Chinese and South African officials called for more enhanced media cooperation between China and Africa to have a bigger voice in the world and create "win-win" development for both sides.
While waiting in line at a pizza restaurant in Harare, I was asked by a local resident named Simon how popular Huawei cellphones were in China. He asked this as he showed me a new Huawei P8 bought locally, which he said was the "coolest phone" he had ever used.
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