This photo taken on May 8, 2022 shows a section of the Nairobi Expressway built by China Road and Bridge Corporation in Nairobi, Kenya. [Photo/Xinhua]
China's decades-long efforts in lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty are increasingly offering Africa both development experience and practical support in the continent's own fight against poverty.
Through investments in infrastructure, energy, agricultural technology transfer, vocational training and institutional capacity-building, China has emerged as a key partner in advancing Africa's sustainable development agenda.
According to Charles Onunaiju, director of the Centre for China Studies in Nigeria, China recognizes that global prosperity cannot be achieved while large parts of the world remain trapped in poverty. China has also demonstrated its commitment through its engagement with Africa, he said.
He said over the past two decades, China's engagement with Africa has increasingly focused on practical measures aimed at addressing structural barriers to development, particularly through infrastructure connectivity, capacity-building and job creation under the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, or FOCAC, and the Belt and Road Initiative.
