Ten years living and working in South Africa taught Joseph Githu, 36, an important lesson: growing Chinese vegetables is a lucrative venture. He worked as an electrician on farms and realized that farmers there had invested heavily in horticulture.
Coming to dinner tables in Kenya soon: the authentic taste of Central China in 80,000 packaged meals. The meals, worth a total of $101,000, left China in mid-August and arrived in Kenya at the end of August.
On a small farm in Kiambu county, less than an hour's drive from the Kenyan capital Nairobi, stand three greenhouses.
African countries have applauded the success of the herbal expert Tu Youyou, the first Chinese to win the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, elevating hopes for the future of traditional Chinese medicine.
Artemisinin has a history going back to ancient Chinese medicine
Traditional Chinese medicine, practiced in China for thousands of years and used globally, has been gained worldwide attention with the announcement that a Chinese pharmacologist was awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Oct 5.
In September 2006, Kenya officially adopted artemisinin-based combination therapies for managing malaria. This followed recognition of the threat posed by anti-malaria drugs that proved ineffective in clearing infections after a standard course of treatment. This was particularly bad for children under five and pregnant women.
Artemisinin makers from China are set to make more money after Tu Youyou, the inventor of the anti-malaria drug, won the Nobel Prize for medicine for her findings, triggering sharp buying interest among investors.
As the world's media remained preoccupied with China's economic slowdown and the recent stock market crash, they all but ignored policy guidelines that the government issued on Sept 13 regarding the way state-owned enterprises are run.
It has taken years for China's state-owned enterprises to grow into the monolithic giants they are today, and efforts to change the way they are run is necessarily a highly complex, drawn-out task.
The recently unveiled blueprint on extending the reform of state-owned enterprises is a beacon showing the way for the changes that lie ahead, and it underlines how important China's SOEs are to the national economy.
Many aspects of the reform of state-owned enterprises have been widely discussed in recent years, but what the proposed changes mean to foreign investors has seldom been canvassed.
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