The relative slowdown in China's economy was one of a number of factors casting a shadow over the recent Mining Indaba Conference in Cape Town. The mining sector in South Africa has other problems closer to home, including labor unrest and the threat of increasing government regulation.
"I can't sit without a project for five years, even though we are a State-owned enterprise," Wang Xiaoming said in his office in Nairobi.
Chinese mining firm Hanlong is expected to take over Australia's Sundance in February, the company disclosed.
Agricultural experts and researchers from Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University set up the C-RATDC in Rwanda in April 2011.
Ethiopia, one of the least-developed countries in the world is hoping Chinese companies will consider opening more factories there.
Lifan Industry Group Co, a Chinese automaker, plans to spend $3.5 million moving into a new vehicle-assembly plant in Ethiopia next year.
A China-Africa conference on Wednesday urged Chinese enterprises with ties to Africa to fulfill their corporate social responsibilities and abide by local laws and regulations.
According to a press communique issued after the Third Roundtable Conference on China-Africa Cooperation, held in southern province of Hainan, Chinese companies doing business with African partners or in Africa should promote social benefits as well as business growth in an effort to bring more benefits to local people.
Sudan is seeking Chinese investment in its agricultural industry, aiming to turn the emerging sector into a new highlight of bilateral economic ties.
China UnionPay said Friday that CUP bank cards can be accepted for online payments through the State Bank of Mauritius, further consolidating its presence in Africa.
According to the latest estimates, more than 10,000 Chinese have been involved in bringing different business activities to Uganda in recent years. The Chinese influx has been dramatic, especially over the past decade, and it's no coincidence that Uganda too has experienced rapid modernization in that period, as the economic and trade ties grew stronger between the two nations.
China's engagement in Africa is helping change the face of the once branded "Dark Continent", lighting up more streets, building more new roads and generating more new professionals.
After a two-and-a-half-hour flight from Niamey, the capital of Niger, the small plane landed at a small airport. The airport, Jaouro, is dubbedjiaorou(which means "tender" in Chinese) among Chinese workers here.
But conditions here are just the opposite of what its Chinese name implies. Lying in the heartland of the southern Sahara, the world's largest and roughest desert, the lonely base here is routinely subjected to scorching heat, sandstorms, scorpions, snakes, malaria and even robberies. More>>
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