Wang Yi's Africa Tour marks 2025 as new high in China-Africa cooperation

Editor's Note: Alleviating poverty, making up for the infrastructure deficit and bolstering sustainable growth are high on the agenda in Africa, and China has been providing solutions, initiatives and partnerships to achieve these goals for decades. How will China and Africa build on the FOCAC Beijing Action Plan to bring about concrete outcomes for African nations? In this edition of The Hub, Wang Guan talks to Wang Jinjie, research assistant professor at the National School of Development and the Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development, and deputy secretary-general of the Center for African Studies at Peking University; to Fortune Abang, chief correspondent at the News Agency of Nigeria; and to Erastus Mwencha, former deputy chairperson of the African Union Commission, to discuss Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi's current four-nation, week-long Africa tour to Namibia, the Republic of the Congo, Chad and Nigeria. Mwencha expects the China-Africa synergy in education and technology to progress further and says that "green development is the future" for African countries. Wang Jinjie is looking forward to more Chinese investment in connectivity projects to improve Africa's access to international markets.