While trade in goods and services between Africa and China continues to paint an impressive picture with breathtaking growth in recent years, it is the recent changes in the trade in human resources that are now beginning to reveal the emergence of a very different relationship.
The Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in 2006 was a significant milestone in relations between the two sides as among other things it called for increased people-to-people exchanges.
How long does China have to change its economic model before it runs into trouble?
Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator at the Financial Times
Michael Pettis believes China's investment-fueled economic model is running out of time.
In his new book Avoiding the Fall: China's Economic Restructuring, my colleague Guanghua professor Michael Pettis forecasts a collapse in annual Chinese economic growth rates over the next decade to low single digits (2-4 percent).
With the announcement of the tapering off of quantitative easing by the US Federal Reserve in 2013, emerging markets started feeling the chill.
Private companies give a fillip to Chinese business and investment in Africa
Manufacturers seek new locations to stay profitable
Absence may make the heart grow fonder, but if companies want to succeed in Africa, they need to be physically present in the continent, experts say
More needs to be done to encourage private participation in African development projects
Transparency critical for the business success of chinese enterprises in Africa
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