African countries are enjoying the benefits of rapid adoption of the latest communication technology
Chinese tea producers take the less traveled road in Africa and Europe, for sustained growth.
What it did for coffee in China, starbucks aims to do for tea in the United States
For many across Europe and the US, no drink is more synonymous with good health than green tea, and with the possible exception of pandas and chopsticks, nothing is more synonymous with China.
Diversity, stringent quality standards hold key for exporters
Researchers run their academic gauge over the China-Africa relationship.
Most of the dynamic institutions carrying out research into China and its involvement in Africa are based in South Africa, the continent's economic powerhouse, underscoring its academic aptitude and its higher-order engagement with China as a fellow member of the BRICS geopolitical organization.
The Chinese-in-Africa-Africans-in-China research network is a global community of Africa-China enthusiasts representing a truly eclectic and global mix - academics of all hues and persuasions; journalists and civil servants and social activists; consultants and businesspeople, to name but a few. Heavily reliant on the Internet, the group is a virtual study in the benefits of the information superhighway.
Media coverage of the Sino-African relationship tends to focus on what Chris Alden and Yoon Jung Park, in a recent book, have called the "upstairs" dimensions: Chinese investment in Africa, development aid and the impact of these relationships on geopolitics. The establishment of the BRICS group of emerging nations is probably the clearest indication of these shifts, and has attracted a great deal of debate. Media coverage of the BRICS, as with China-Africa relations more generally, has largely been dominated by economic and political issues.
Think tanks forums provide the best avenue for exchanges between scholars from two sides
Decisive reforms in key areas and allowing the markets to play a bigger role will help China achieve sustainable growth and stabilize the global economy, experts say.
Much has come from the third plenum regarding the management of State-owned assets, particularly State-owned enterprises. The reforms are not going to wipe SOEs out of existence, however.