Governments around the world used to employ Chinese construction firms just to build bridges, railways and other infrastructure projects. But now they want them to invest in them and run them too. “In the past, we would just go abroad with machines and technical teams, building what customers wanted and waiting for the payment,” Zhao Hui, who has been working in infrastructure construction in Africa since 1998, told the Global [...]

A total of 1,072 Chinese people working as gold miners in Ghana have returned to their homes in Shanglin County of south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the county government said Thursday night. The Ghanaian government launched a crackdown on illegal mining in early June, arresting 169 Chinese workers. After consultations between officials of the two countries, the Chinese detainees were released. A number of Shanglin natives were among those [...]

New initiatives to lift investment in the continent The China-Africa Business Council and the China-Africa Development Fund have decided to set up two new funds this year boost China’s investment in Africa. One fund is for commercial ventures, and the other, for mining activities. Zheng Yuewen, chairman of CABC, which represents the interests of more than 550 Chinese companies in Africa, said each fund will raise $1 billion in its [...]

China on Thursday urged Sudan and South Sudan to remain calm and resolve disputes through negotiations. “We call on both sides to remain calm and restrained, take care of each other’s major concerns, implement the agreements and settle disputes through negotiations and consultations so as to safeguard the overall situation of the two sides,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a daily press briefing. Hua’s comments came after Sudanese [...]

A Chinese joint working team is in Ghana to discuss issues linked to Chinese nationals in the crackdown on illegal gold mining in the West African country. Upon its arrival on Tuesday, the team of the Chinese ministries of foreign affairs, commerce and public security met with Ghanaian officials of the security and immigration departments to discuss the issues. Zhou Youbin, charge d’affaires of the Chinese Embassy in Ghana, and [...]

Chinese solar panel makers may bulk up in Afria after China finishes building one of the biggest solar power stations on the continent. Chinese solar panel makers will supply most of the $140 million needed to build a solar power station in Garissa, Kenya, according to State-owned China Jiangxi Corporation for International Economic and Technical Cooperation, the deal’s coordinator. The coordinating company said Wednesday that the project will serve as [...]

A work team has been sent to Ghana and will persuade Chinese digging gold in the country to return home, authorities in the southern city of Nanning said on Tuesday. Thousands of Chinese, inspired by stories of quick fortune, have flocked to Ghana in recent years as gold diggers, and most of them are from Shanglin county in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. However, the Ghana government has launched a [...]

Chinese gold miners in Ghana who hid in forests or locals’ homes from a government crackdown are retreating with the help of representatives sent by the Chinese government and embassy. Officials with the Chinese embassy and Shanglin county of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, where most of the miners are from, are rescuing miners trapped at different mining sites. Li Jun, an official from the Shanglin government’s office in the [...]

China on Thursday called on the United Nations and the international community to continue to play an active and constructive role in addressing the Somalia issue and advancing the peace process in the country. Li Baodong, China’s permanent representative to the United Nations, said at an open Security Council meeting on the situation in Somalia that “We support the new government of Somalia in implementing an interim Constitution, carrying out [...]

There is widespread concern back home about the situation of the 124 Chinese nationals detained by police in Ghana for suspected illegal gold mining, China’s authorities should work with their Ghanaian counterparts for a proper settlement to the issue as soon as possible and seek a once-and-for-all solution to the alleged illegal gold mining by Chinese nationals in the West African country. But before that, the Ghanaian authorities must provide [...]