COMMENT | Yang Dingdu & Li Zhuoqun – Xinhua | China’s announcement of zero-tariff treatment starting May 1 for all the 53 African countries with which it maintains diplomatic ties reaffirms its consistent commitment to opening its vast market to Global South partners. As Chinese President Xi Jinping has …
Read More »Rising Chinese demand fuels surge in Uganda’s coffee exports
KAMPALA, UGANDA | Xinhua | Surging coffee consumption in China is driving a sharp increase in Uganda’s coffee exports to the Asian market, officials said at a one-day Uganda-China Coffee, Investment and Destination Conference held here on Tuesday. Fan Xuecheng, charge d’affaires ad interim of the Chinese Embassy in Uganda, …
Read More »Chinese community in Uganda honors fallen Chinese experts in Namboole stadium construction
KAMPALA, UGANDA | Xinhua | The Chinese community in Uganda on Friday commemorated four Chinese experts who lost their lives 30 years ago during the construction of the country’s national stadium. Dressed in dark attire, staff from the Chinese Embassy in Uganda and representatives of Chinese enterprises and institutions laid …
Read More »China’s 15th Five-Year Plan period crucial for realizing modernization
BEIJING | Xinhua | The 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030) will be a crucial stage for China to consolidate foundations and make all-round efforts in advancing Chinese modernization, as the country moves toward its goal of basically realizing socialist modernization by 2035, experts have said. In the latest episode of China …
Read More »Inside China’s robot valley, where the future gets built at speed of proximity
SHENZHEN, Xinhua | THE INDEPENDENT | When a Chinese robotics innovator faced an urgent space crunch for his laser sensor startup a few years ago, he did what many entrepreneurs in the country’s southern tech hub of Shenzhen do: he called the local government. By the next day, multiple authorities …
Read More »Chinese quarry deal rattles Zimbabwe farmers
Harare, Zimbabwe | Linda Mujuru, Global Press Journal Zimbabwe | Primrose Garande’s ancestors relied on the fertile pastures here to graze their cattle, and he followed in their footsteps. Now, a Chinese-funded quarry operation threatens the lush landscape. Garande no longer knows where his livestock will graze. When school …
Read More »Ugandan students celebrate International Chinese Language Day with cultural performances
KAMPALA | Xinhua | Hundreds of students from schools and institutions across Uganda gathered on Thursday to celebrate the 16th United Nations International Chinese Language Day with vibrant performances, music, and dance. The event, held at Makerere University, the country’s largest public institution, was organized by the university’s Confucius Institute …
Read More »Ugandan students depict sustainable future of Chinese-operated oil field in art contest
KIKUUBE, Uganda | Xinhua | On an escarpment overlooking the Chinese-operated oil field in Uganda’s western district of Kikuube, 30 students sat with paintbrushes and canvases, envisioning a future where nature, heritage, and modernization coexist. Under the shade of trees shielding them from the blazing sun of the Great Rift …
Read More »Chinese, Japanese media, think tanks hold dialogue on boosting cultural exchanges
Xinhua is willing to work with partners from Chinese and Japanese media outlets and think tanks to tell moving stories of enhancing mutual trust and cooperation between China and Japan, and continue to record the history of mutual understanding and friendship between the two peoples, said Xinhua’s President Fu …
Read More »Chinese road builders win credit in Uganda for community engagement
KIKUUBE, Uganda | Xinhua | For 20-year-old Peninah Nasambu, a civil engineering student from Uganda, her recent visit to a Chinese road construction camp brimmed with new discoveries. As Buhimba Technical Institute inked a cooperation memorandum of understanding (MoU) with China Railway Seventh Group (CRSG), Nasambu and dozens of her …
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