When an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787 disgorged its payload at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, soon after midday on Sept 5, the stream of passengers heading toward the exits and the baggage carousels offered up an interesting story.
Nigeria surpassed South Africa as Africa's leading economy in 2014, thanks to a rebasing to include new sectors such as e-commerce and mobile phones, a recalculation that had not been done since 1990.
For 10 long years, Garba Abbas, along with hundreds of thousands of other people in Sokoto, northwestern Nigeria, struggled to live in a city short of water.
Almost as soon as the International Olympic Committee announced seven weeks ago that Beijing would host the Winter Olympics in 2022, economic fundamentals in the capital, and more particularly its co-host city Zhangjiakou, began to shift.
Like an athlete shooting to instant fame after defeating much more fancied rivals, the impoverished county of Chongli, northwest of Beijing, continues to revel in sharing first place in an Olympic Games competition.
Born in a city a couple of hours away by car from the Alps, Elio Bossi was fortunate as a teenager to be able to develop his skiing skills with the help of a professional trainer.
In seven years, Beijing will become the first city to have staged both the Summer and Winter Olympics. But what changes will Beijing 2022 bring to the host city and the surrounding areas?
Efforts to integrate and coordinate the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, also known as Jing-jin-ji, is one of the most important development strategies in China.
Victor X. Liu could be the new face of China's manufacturing.
Zhao Bin, chairman of XKNC, is at the forefront of China's factory upgrading.
Eric Thun believes manufacturing will remain the "heart and soul" of the Chinese economy.
Made in China 2025 - the roadmap for the first 10 years of a national 30-year manufacturing industry strategy - has attracted intense attention in China in the past months.