West trying to smear China so it can hold Africa captive

In a sign of how it values its traditional relations with Africa, for nearly three decades China has scheduled its foreign minister's first overseas visits of the year to the continent. Foreign Minister Wang Yi has just concluded a five-day African trip, which took him to Ethiopia, Gambia, Senegal and Burkina Faso - from Wednesday to Sunday - once again testifying to what he described as the "unbreakable" friendship between China and Africa.

A focus of Wang's trip was to make sure the initiatives proposed at the 2018 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation covering industrialization, infrastructure, trade facilitation, green development and healthcare will be well implemented. China pledged $60 billion in aid to Africa at the summit as part of its efforts to propel Sino-African cooperation to a new stage, and jointly build a community of shared future for mankind.

Much progress has been made in Sino-Africa cooperation, as evidenced in the 10,000 kilometers of highways, over 6,000 km of railways as well as numerous schools, hospitals, ports and power stations that China has helped Africa to build over the past decades.