Xi's visit to Africa will lift relations to higher level

President Xi Jinping hailed the great dynamism of Africa when he arrived in Senegal on Saturday, the first stop on a four-country trip to Africa, that also takes him to Rwanda, South Africa and Mauritius.

A key driver of this dynamism has been the boom in infrastructure projects managed and financed by China as part of its Belt and Road Initiative, which aims to build a transport network spanning Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe.

Over the past five years, China and Africa have made concerted efforts to advance their cooperation under the framework of this vision for common development, and Chinese investments into Africa have increased steadily: It is now the single largest contributor of foreign direct investment in Africa.