Although China's increased involvement in Gabon is a recent development, diplomatic links between the two countries were first established in 1974. This followed Gabon's wish to expand political ties and Omar Bongo taking power in 1967.
Perceptions about Chinese workers in Africa have undergone a sea change with young, talented and highly educated professionals offering a new perspective to China's relationships on the continent.
Chen Hao has good reason to prefer Beryl Markham's West with the Night to the more popular Out of Africa by Karen Blixen. Chen identifies herself with the free spirit embodied by Markham, an adventurer, horse racer and bush pilot who became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean from east to west.
Meaningful engagement between Chinese and African students, particularly through volunteer programs, will translate into solid physical investments for the future, particularly in the private sector, experts say.
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
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