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China-Africa Expo Opens with Focus on Economic Ties, New Deals
- The China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo held its fourth edition starting June 12, 2025, in Changsha, Hunan Province, drawing more than 30,000 attendees from 53 African nations and 27 regions across China.
- The expo highlights the growth in bilateral trade, which hit an all-time high of $295.6 billion in 2024, with China maintaining its role as Africa’s top trading partner for the sixteenth year in a row.
- The event featured nearly nine major project signings in energy, manufacturing, and transportation, valued at about 2.5 billion yuan, plus 30 trade activities covering green minerals and youth entrepreneurship.
- Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi affirmed that regardless of how global circumstances evolve, China remains committed to supporting Africa’s modernization efforts and enhancing cooperative ties between the two regions.
- The expo signals expanding China-Africa collaboration beyond trade into industrialization and digital transformation, which experts say shifts Africa's development from raw exports to value-added production.
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China-Africa expo opens with economic ties in focus
The fourth China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo opened on Thursday in Changsha, Central China's Hunan Province, highlighting the commitment of the world's largest developing country to strengthening ties with Africa, the continent with the largest number of developing nations.
The fourth China-Africa economic and trade exhibition held its inaugural ceremony on Thursday, June 12, in the Chinese city of Changsha, capital of Hunan, becoming a stage to deepen the ties between the Asian giant and the African continent. The event, which will last four days and has as its central theme "China and Africa: Together Towards Modernization", has brought together more than 30,000 participants and around 4,700 companies, both from …
China-Africa expo opens with focus on economic ties, new deals
The Fourth China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo opened on Thursday in Changsha City, central China's Hunan Province, highlighting the commitment of the world's largest developing country to strengthening ties with Africa, the continent with the largest number of developing nations.
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