{{China-Africa trade totalled more than $200 billion last year, Chinese President Xi Jinping said, highlighting the Asian powerhouse’s burgeoning trade and investment ties with the continent.}}<\/p>\n
“In 2013, Chinese-African trade surpassed the $200 billion mark for the first time, making China Africa’s biggest trading partner,” Xi told visiting Senegalese President Macky Sall, adding that Chinese direct investment in Africa grew 44 percent.<\/p>\n
“That all stands witness to the endlessly renewed vitality of Sino-African friendship, to the scale of the potential for co-operation and the excellent outlook for the new kind of Sino-African strategic partnership,” Xi said at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People.<\/p>\n
Xi did not give an exact total.<\/p>\n
But China-Africa trade has boomed in line with the Asian country’s rise to become the world’s second-biggest economy, which has been accompanied by a thirst for African natural resources to help fuel its growth.<\/p>\n
Underscoring the continent’s importance, Xi visited Tanzania, South Africa and the Republic of Congo as part of his first overseas tour after he become president in March last year.<\/p>\n
But China’s growing role has also sparked tensions in some countries.<\/p>\n
In February last year, for example, the Zambian government seized control of a Chinese-owned coal company due to poor compliance with safety and environmental standards, its mines minister said. <\/p>\n
In 2012 workers at the mine killed a Chinese manager during rioting over work conditions.<\/p>\n
Acclaimed primatologist Jane Goodall told media in a recent interview that China was exploiting Africa’s resources just as European colonisers did, with disastrous effects<\/p>\n
AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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