President Xi Jinping attends a joint news conference with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa (left) and Senegalese President Macky Sall in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tuesday.Wang Zhuangfei / China Daily
China and Africa will align the Belt and Road Initiative with the development strategies of African nations to bring more opportunities for the growth and prosperity of the continent, President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday.
President Xi Jinping met separately with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Tuesday evening after the conclusion of the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation.
By almost doubling Uganda's electricity generation capacity, two new dams on the Nile River, scheduled to begin operations within two years, will help transform the business attractiveness of the country.
Experts from China look at the achievements of the China-Africa relationship and at how various issues should be tackled in the years to come
From solar powered street lights, mobile phones, headphones, digital gadgets to clothes, bedding and cosmetics, more and more Chinese goods can be spotted in African households as the continent has opened up a major market for Chinese e-commerce merchants.
China conducted an oil slick cleanup drill in the East China Sea on Tuesday to improve the country's emergency response ability.
"Community with a shared future" has become so prominent in Chinese diplomacy lately that it should come as no surprise that the 2018 summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation passed its Beijing declaration on Tuesday promising to build a "closer China-Africa community with a shared future".
China said it will encourage and attract private investment to help build more general aviation airports, to provide more comprehensive services such as public transportation and social services, and further promote the growth of the sector.
ISLAMABAD - The Pakistani government led by Prime Minister Imran Khan has shown its full support and a firm commitment to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, or the CPEC, vowing to utilize the project for poverty alleviation and development.
In 2015, one of artist Tong Kunniao's installation works was bought by a museum director. Ahead of him lay dozens of exhibition invitations and contracts with galleries from both China and abroad. At the age of just 25, Tong was a fresh graduate from the sculpture department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. The same year, one of Tong's counterparts Hao Liang had taken part in several influential shows held at leading Chinese museums and galleries. The 32-year-old ink wash painter had made a big splash a year previously with one of his works fetching 5.6 million yuan ($820,128) at Christie's auction house in Shanghai, a record sum for a living Chinese painter aged under 35.
LONDON - Lionel Messi was left off the shortlist for the FIFA's men's player of the year award for the first time in over a decade on Monday, but his old rival Cristiano Ronaldo was named alongside Luka Modric and Mo Salah.