Engineers break down learning barriers

Chinese engineers are overcoming obstacles of language and culture to help build a Kenyan team to work independently in the use and maintenance of Chinese engineering machinery.

Nairobi's flourishing training grounds

With help from Chinese machinery makers, low-income Kenyan students are learning new job skills.

Working together to create the right jobs

For about two decades, Africa has achieved rapid development with an average GDP growth rate at about 5 percent, yet there are some hindrances that have held back development.

Adapting Chinese solutions to Africa

Technical and vocational skills development is considered a way to develop appropriate job competency and thereby improve labor supply and the employability of the workforce. Consequently, developing these skills has assumed some prominence in the fight against youth unemployment.

To a common beat

As a more confident and assertive China has laid the foundations for a fresh approach to diplomacy over the past year, it and its partners in Africa have been keen to pursue goals for their relationships that President Xi Jinping set out in 2013.

Zhou Enlai set the tone for bilateral ties

At the start of last year, China-Africa relations were on a high, particularly given that both Gambia and Sao Tome had severed links with Taipei in late 2013 and recognized Beijing. China now in effect has diplomatic relations with 54 out of 55 countries in Africa, and a brick and mortar presence in all of these countries.

Year in which solidarity became clearer

Last year brought what might be called a new normal in the development of China-Africa relations.

Maritime Silk Road shows way forward

An "inflection point" in mathematics occurs when there is a change of curvature, say from concave to convex, at a particular point on a curve.

Growth pangs

This year begins in a climate of considerable global economic uncertainty.

2015 outlook

Stephen Roach, former chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and author of Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China

Tipping point

Investment flows in and out of a country do not usually excite much interest - but in the case of China, 2014 may prove an exception.

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