Initiatives highlighted to bolster continent

The ideas and eight major initiatives President Xi Jinping put forward in his keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the 2018 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation are a clear demonstration of win-win cooperation on equal footing, analysts said.

In Monday's speech, Xi said that China follows a "five-no" approach to ties with Africa, including no interference in African countries' following development paths that fit their national conditions and no attachment of political strings to assistance.

Li Wentao, an African studies researcher at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, said the "five-no" approach shows China's friendliness in developing ties with other countries. Such an approach is a powerful rebuke to accusations that China is imposing its development pattern on others or practicing neocolonialism in Africa.