Soaring trade volume between China and Africa in recent years has forced international and African banks to launch financial and banking services specifically for Chinese customers on the continent.
China's rapidly expanding cities are generating immense opportunities for Europe's masters of planning, architecture and engineering, and attracting the interest of investors and academics.
Urbanization has become the midwife of invention
"West China is where people move their operations for lower labor and property costs. But if logistics doesn't move along with manufacturing, you cannot move up the value chain."
The China-Africa Business Council and the China-Africa Development Fund have decided to set up two new funds this year to boost China's investment in Africa.
French bank Societe Generale SA is seeking to expand into Africa to tap the boom in the Sino-African trade and rapidly growing commercial activities of Chinese enterprises in the region.
One of the biggest challenges for Africa is providing employment opportunities to its youth, the New York Forum AFRICA has heard.
Mahamat Mout Djirabi, a Chadian, walks through the hotel lobby of the New York Forum Africa conference carefully searching for participants to connect with. He stops at a group of Chinese and starts pulling out promotional materials from his suitcase.
The Chinese liquor industry is expected to have impressive growth potential in the future despite the present downturn caused by the government's crackdown on luxury official banquets, says Frost & Sullivan, a US-based market consultancy.
When Ben Pape, a founder of the UK-China Eco-Cities and Green Building Group, first came to Beijing in the early 1980s, the capital was building the 48-kilometer Third Ring Road. When he came this year, it was working on a seventh, 940 km long.
Silicone maker ready to fill openings as building demand heats up
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