Energized executives praise speech

Officials and business executives from home and abroad hailed the vision outlined by President Xi Jinping's speech at the High-Level Dialogue Between Chinese and African Leaders and Business Representatives on Monday, as it would inject new growth momentum into economic development on both sides.

A key take-away from Xi's speech is that he highlighted the importance of African countries adopting information technology to develop modern manufacturing, the internet and digital economies, said Sun Pishu, chairman and CEO of Inspur Group, a major Chinese server manufacturer.

"We will respond to President Xi's call for more efforts to deepen business activities in Africa, including building new cloud data centers in Ghana and Ethiopia soon," he said. "We will also bring our latest technologies, products and solutions to African economies."