Adams Bodomo thinks that Africans in Guangzhou are a significant community and one worth researching in terms of its influence on future immigration policies in China and African development. He also thinks that this community contributes in various ways to the booming China-Africa relationship.
Li Dong, a chemical engineering graduate from Zhejiang University, is renowned in China and Europe for documenting the experiences of foreigners in Guangzhou. The former engineer, who was born in the 1960s, thinks the presence of African migrants in Guangdong's capital city represents a milestone in the China-Africa relationship.
Margaret Liang says that even though her hometown, the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, has had an influx of Africans, she did not know any of the newcomers.
In the 1980s it was difficult to find an African who lived in China. At the time the country seemed far flung and barely accessible.
The Chinese stock market has been described by at least one analyst as being "on fire".
The Shanghai bull run verdict
We often think of market moves as simply getting from one level to another, but in China the debate seems to have turned to concerns around the quality of the underlying move.
After several long years of sluggish performance, China's A-shares market in recent months staged one of the most impressive run-ups ever in global equities markets.
Even as Africa looks to China as an exemplar while the continent's industrialization continues apace, it also hopes to avoid some of the costly mistakes China inevitably made in more than 30 years of rapid economic growth.
Residents of the capital of Zimbabwe, Harare, may one day be able to toast an agreement between their city, the University of Technology of Zimbabwe and Tongji University of China with a glass of the improved water that the accord aims to deliver to them.
China's urbanization in the past 30 years is unprecedented both in speed and scale. There were about 200 cities and 3,000 towns by the end of the 1970s. Now there are 655 cities and about 23,000 towns.
President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda says he expects the country's economy to keep on steaming ahead, growing at more than 15 percent a year over the next few years, as China throws itself into the task of improving the country's infrastructure.
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