China and Africa enjoy a long history of traditional friendship. China's founding leaders Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai and the older generation of African leaders broke new ground for China-Africa relations with mutual support.
In east Africa, Kenya has seen five Chinese smartphone vendors enter its phone market, according to Xinhua News Agency. Let us have a look at these early birds.
President Xi Jinping offered China's solutions to global warming and modernizing a less-developed continent in a week-long visit to three countries.
Gao Anming (center), deputy editor-in-chief of China Daily, unveils the Chinese Enterprises in Africa in 2015, a collection of news stories about how Chinese companies have developed in Africa, at the South Africa-China Business Forum in Johannesburg in South Africa, Dec 4, 2015.
The Johannesburg Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) is to kick off here on Friday, with an eye to setting the next agenda for bilateral ties and cementing partnership in new areas that would unleash mutual benefits.
China Railway Signal and Communication Co Ltd, the world's largest railway control solution provider by market share, will provide advanced train control systems to the Mombasa-Nairobi standard-gauge railway.
The Sino-Africa Joint Research Centre, which is under construction in Kenya, will spearhead research done by Chinese and African scientists in addressing emerging biodiversity and conservation challenges facing developing countries.
The increasingly deepening cooperation between China and Africa proves that there is a link between Chinese dream and African dream. The reality of the dreams is to bring relations between the two sides closer.
From building railways to constructing theaters, China has made major contributions in aid to countries throughout Africa. A closer look at them:
President Xi Jinping has called for more closely connecting China's development with Africa via capacity cooperation to improve infrastructure and expand the pool of talent for African nations.
Ties between President Xi and African leaders show the friendship between China and Africa.
Shadrack Kapaito stood in the shade of the only tall tree outside Olasiti village, near Kenya's Amboseli National Park, and waited to greet his special guests.