The just-concluded summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation demands that we reflect on the achievements of the fast growing China-Africa partnership.
Angola is located in the southern part of Africa, and shares its borders with the Democratic Republic of Congo to the north, the Republic of Zambia to the east, and Namibia to the south. It has a land area of 1,246,700 square kilometers, and coastline that is 1,650-km long. Angola gained independence from Portugal on Nov1 11, 1975, after about 500 years of colonization.
Relations between China and Morocco are centuries old. Ibn Battuta, the famous Moroccan explorer who toured China from 1345 to 1346, was the first to introduce China, especially the Great Wall, to the Western and Arab worlds.
Senior health officials from China and African nations vowed to improve cooperation and facilitate local drug production to promote public health in Africa at a meeting in Beijing last month.
Chinese tourists are increasingly flocking to Africa for vacation, with the number up 70 percent year-on-year from January to July on Ctrip, a major online travel agency in China, according to its figures.
Despite the culture gap and acclimation issues, elite African soccer players have mostly enjoyed their wellpaid adventures as part of China's top league.
More than 1.29 million English textbooks compiled by Chinese experts will be used by first-grade students in South Sudan in the coming school year.
An agribusiness company in eastern China that has made significant inroads in the African market says its growing presence on the continent is boosting economic development and farmers' incomes.
Cooperation between China and Africa in the energy sector has seen remarkable progress in recent years, especially in the field of renewable energy.
CNOOC Ltd, whose controlling shareholder is China National Offshore Oil Corp, the country's largest offshore oil and natural gas developer, said the company will increase investment in its existing oil and gas operation in Nigeria, which it described as one of its most strategic and important overseas business undertakings.
A Tsinghua University alumni association is playing an important role in promoting exchanges between China and Africa.
State-owned China Zhongyuan Engineering Corporation said it will deepen cooperation with African countries and help them solve bottleneck problems in their nuclear energy development.
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