China and Africa, over the past three years, have yielded rich fruits from their cooperation in industrialization, a significant area to propel Africa’s social development, economic transformation, and improvement of people’s livelihood. Those results also constitute an impressive part of the positive progress both sides made from their efforts to implement the ten major China-Africa cooperation plans which were put forward three years ago.
The African countries are now embracing stronger capacity of independent grain production, more advanced farming technologies, optimized agricultural supply chain, and rising income of farmers thanks to China’s concrete actions to fulfill its promises of helping with agricultural modernization of Africa three years ago. At the Johannesburg Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) held in South Africa in December 2015, Chinese President Xi Jinping put forward ten major China-Africa cooperation plans, in which supporting agricultural modernization in Africa was a priority area.
A passenger is taking a selfie at the Nairobi station of the Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) in Kenya. (Photo by Wang Yunsong from People’s Daily) China and Africa have, in recent years, made important progress from a batch of big projects thanks to their mutual efforts in expanding cooperation fronts and deepening collaboration in infrastructure construction, a key engine to help China and Africa align their development strategies and build an even stronger community with a shared future.
The international situation has undergone tremendous changes since the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) was established in 2000. Over the years, China and Africa have played bigger roles in the international political and economic landscape.
