The value of China's overseas mergers and acquisitions reached $63 billion during the first three quarters of 2015 - up 27 percent from the previous year, and is expected to continue growing at similar levels in the coming years.
Closer relations between China and Egypt - underlined by President Xi Jinping's visit to Cairo - have raised hopes that additional Chinese investment will help create more jobs with the opening of the country's new wonder, the New Suez Canal.
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank will be a 21st-century multilateral lender with a rigorous corporate culture, its first president said on Jan 17.
China, which shares similarities in development strategy with Egypt, makes an ideal partner for Egypt in its industrialization process, according to Chinese ambassador to Egypt Song Aiguo.
Telling funny stories may become the new way to understand a strange culture thousands of miles away, according to 26-year-old Egyptian Mohammed Magdi, a part-time stand-up comedian in Shanghai.
Chinese experts in Egypt are being called on to translate more Chinese movies and TV series into Arabic as interest in the Middle Kingdom spikes on the eve of President Xi Jinping's state visit to the country from Jan 20 to 22.
More Chinese companies are setting up shop in Egypt or expanding existing operations there to take advantage of opportunities presented by the Belt and Road Initiative, as well as the nation's prime location and rich resources, executives say.
Plans call for construction to start soon on a major 6-square-kilometer expansion of the China-Egypt Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone.
Egyptians' enthusiasm for learning Chinese is increasing, as bilateral trade has grown and new opportunities for exchanges are on the horizon.
The visit by President Xi Jinping to the Middle East and North Africa has fate-changing, history-making significance.
As far back as a decade, China set itself the task of transforming the country into an innovative society by 2020 and a world leader in science and technology by 2050.
President Xi Jinping's first state visit to Egypt, set for Jan 20 to 22, comes at a crucial time as Cairo is eager to inspire more confidence in foreign investors, according to the Egyptian ambassador to Beijing.
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