The UK with its service-sector dominant economy could benefit as China moves away from its old manufacturing and export model, according to a new report.
Trade in commodities has been the dominant feature of China-Africa relations over the past 20 years, but many traders, particularly those who arrived in Africa early, are now well aware that there must be more to the relationship than that.
The core of the "One Belt and One Road" initiative, the creation of a Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, is infrastructure construction. China should also include Africa in the initiative and encourage the transfer of its labor-intensive industries to Africa.
There is do doubt that Africa, home to six of the world's fastest-growing economies, has changed rapidly over the past few years.
When Chinese Premier Li Keqiang was in Africa in May of last year he enthusiastically spoke about how China and Africa could work together on high-speed railways, highways and aviation.
You might say Mu Yunqing, 31, is a dedicated worker. He has devoted more than an eighth of his life to expanding, repairing and living at Kenya's main airport - the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport - in Nairobi, the capital.
As a landlocked country, Rwanda's opportunities for expanding business are not quite as extensive as those enjoyed by other countries. One way of overcoming that is air transport.
What happens when different companies from different parts of the world, used to using different standards, get together to build a major expansion and upgrade to one of Africa's premier airports?
As Africa presses on with industrialization and urbanization it is increasingly buying from China the machinery and consumer goods it needs to make these two things happen.
Trade between China and South Africa dropped sharply last year, mainly the result of declining international commodity prices.
The state visit of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang to Nigeria in May made a significant statement about Beijing's commitment to the country.
In 2009, China burst onto the African trade scene in full throttle, elbowing out both the European Union and the United States to become Africa's largest trading partner.
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