FM rejects criticism of help for Africa

Senior officials and experts have dismissed voices demonizing China's helping hands extended to African countries, saying that China is the country that offers real solutions to the growing pains of the developing continent.

The officials made the observation after some recent media comments accused China of adding to African countries' debt burdens by offering financing and of having political motives behind the financing.

The accusations were raised as Foreign Minister Wang Yi was making his first trip abroad for 2018 to Rwanda, Angola, Gabon and Sao Tome and Principe from Friday to Tuesday.