Vision of a joined-up way ahead for the Chinese and global robotics sector
As economic, business and social relations between Africa and China deepen, more African students, young professionals and businesspeople are coming to China to live their dream.
Visunda Mfuni arrived in China from Zambia four years ago as an 18-year old, fully intent on studying Chinese, then engineering, at the University of Chemical Technology in Beijing.
The founder of the appreciate Africa network is a tireless advocate of teaching Chinese about the continent and improving people-to-people ties.
Local residents and African traders who reside in South China have many reasons to work together.
Strategic partnerships between China and Africa will offer rich opportunities to both sides.
On the outskirts of Libreville, where women sell fresh fruit beneath palm trees and beach umbrellas, time seems to stand still.
More than 1,000 Chinese private companies and small businesses in Gabon are together making an economic impact on the country that rivals that of the big state-owned corporations.
For years Gabon's economic capital has been cut off, but soon that will end
Naspers, the Cape Town-based multinational, made an audacious bet on a loss-making Chinese Internet company more than a decade ago.
In 2005, William Ng was tasked with kicking off Deutsche Bank's American Depositary Receipt business in the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
China may well continue to hold by far the upper hand in Sino-African investments but arguably the most spectacular exception to that rule remains the backing by one South African media multinational in a then-risky Chinese tech start-up back in 2001.