While leaders of China and African nations were having a roundtable meeting on partnership on Tuesday, their wives were busy discussing another important issue - AIDS prevention - on the sidelines of the 2018 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation.
Chinese companies have a key role in ensuring sustainable development in Africa and helping its economies tackle challenges such as limited export opportunities, weak infrastructure and unemployment, business executives from China and Africa said on Tuesday.
Fighting infectious diseases, including AIDS, will remain a priority in health cooperation between China and African countries, a senior health official said.
The president of the African Development Bank said on Tuesday that the Belt and Road Initiative has helped unlock the growth potential of the continent. He also identified agriculture as the biggest investment opportunity for Chinese companies in Africa.
African leaders attending the ongoing Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation hailed the prospects of Sino-African ties, saying the Belt and Road Initiative helps boost partnerships.
Irivuzimana Felicien smiled as he helped an elderly woman retrieve an electronic ticket on her smartphone to enter one of Beijing's most-visited imperial ruins - Yuanmingyuan, also known as the Old Summer Palace - in the northwestern outskirts of the capital on Monday.
The Belt and Road Initiative will make an important contribution to removing the connectivity bottleneck problem between African countries, a senior United Nations official said, calling the matter "quite urgent".
With enormous goodwill and all-weather friendly cooperation with Beijing, Africa can join the ride on the Belt and Road express, bring her accumulated wisdom of community resilience on board, give the full expression of her contemporary renaissance and integrate it to the Chinese Dream of rejuvenation and jointly construct a community of shared future for all mankind.
The eight major initiatives to be implemented with Africa, announced by President Xi Jinping on Monday, constitute a road map for China and the continent to build an even stronger community with a shared future, analysts said.
China and Ethiopia signed a memorandum of understanding on Monday to promote cooperation under the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative, with the event witnessed by Premier Li Keqiang and his visiting Ethiopian counterpart, Abiy Ahmed Ali.
In a bid to bridge Malawi's skills deficit, China is partnering with the African country's government to increase the number of technical training institutions in the country.
Almost half a century ago, Li Yongzeng ("Li Snr"), now 80, was among tens of thousands of Chinese people who were working in Tanzania helping to build the 1,860-kilometer Tanzam Railway, or TAZARA, linking landlocked Zambia to the Tanzanian port of Dar es Salaam.
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