With the 2018 Beijing summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) scheduled for September 3-4, China is gearing up to receive delegates from the African continent to discuss progress in the strategic relationship and map out the future of a win-win model that is at the core of China's engagement internationally. That calls for efforts to seek out the opportunities that the FOCAC platform offers to Chinese and African state and non-state actors with regard to the 21st century's economic changes, as well as their impact on restructuring the partnership model from trading and infrastructure to a technology-based partnership.
A series of projects contracted by Chinese companies, as part of their efforts to boost connectivity among the “Belt and Road” countries, have won more applause, with the China-constructed rail project connecting landlocked Ethiopia to Djibouti serving as one of the epitomes. Photo shows a full view of Djibouti’s Nagad train station along the Addis Ababa–Djibouti railway.
BEIJING, Aug. 23 (Xinhuanet) -- The core content of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is connectivity, and all the elements of it are what African countries need, said Zeng Aiping, deputy executive director of the China-Asian African Cooperation Centre, in a recent interview with Xinhuanet.
People choose books for their children on Wednesday, the opening of the 25th Beijing International Book Fair. The event runs through Sunday.
