Many Kenyans say their misconceptions about the Chinese have gone after working with them on the Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway project.
Completion of the Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway is still a year and a half away, but changes have already taken place along the line during construction.
I have increasingly sustained a research interest in the nexus between economic growth and infrastructure development.
Ma Yingying says women are increasingly making their mark in Chinese business. The 33-year-old chief executive officer and founder of Lux Shine Media Company, which stages modernized performances of Peking Opera, says there is now a complete break from the male-dominated business environment of the past.
Wang Chun took an unconventional approach to not letting children get in the way of her business career.
Leading fashion designer Mary Ma insists she has achieved success in spite of, and not, because she is a beautiful woman.
The journey to the corner office has never been easy for women anywhere in the world. It is even slower and harder for African women.
Across the world, women are becoming critical actors in the formal economy. The global, high-tech economy that values brains over brawn has also opened up a host of opportunities for women that were previously not available. In some countries, women form the bulk of college graduates and they are making serious inroads in every field.
Cao Min, head of the Eastern Africa China desk of Standard Bank of South Africa has advice that in many ways goes against the grain for him. Rather than investing in China, Africa provides a new and promising chance for such medium-sized investments, given China's slowing industrialization, he says.
Companies in Hebei province are eager to invest in Africa because of the continent's abundant natural resources, strong labor force and huge market demand, industry insiders say.
Chinese companies in Africa hoping to ride on the coat tails of their country's reputation for reliability and hard work need to take a good look at how they are operating in the continent, the head of a mining company in Namibia says.
Recently, Chinese academia and media have engaged in a heated discussion over the government's One Belt, One Road initiative and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.
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