BEIJING, June 9 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday held phone talks with his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, pledging to promote China-South Africa ties, and calling for favorable conditions to solve the Ukraine crisis. Xi said China and South Africa are both important major developing countries and the two enjoy special friendly relations like brothers. China-South Africa relations are of important strategic significance to safeguarding the common interests of developing countries and guiding China-Africa solidarity and cooperation,…

A mechanical arm picks up optical chips and puts them one by one on a testing machine. Within a mere microsecond, a chip completes the power supply connection and input testing. The equipment, a flagship product of Wuhan Precise Electronics Co., Ltd., stands out among its international counterparts due to its superior efficiency and competitive pricing.It currently caters to 80 percent of Chinese companies involved in optical communication. China has become the world’s leading optical communication market, and the size…

To celebrate this year’s International Children’s Day that falls on Thursday, Chinaand the Organization of African First Ladies for Development launched the “WarmChildren’s Hearts, a China-Africa Joint Action” initiative to arouse publicawareness and show their love and care for African children.Over the past six decades, China and Africa, with close people-to-people bonds,have enjoyed ever-deepening win-win cooperation. Their friendship has beentempered in struggle, tested by time, and is ready to embrace new developmentopportunities. NAIROBI, June 1 (Xinhua) — “It takes a…

BEIJING, May 26 (Xinhua) — Peng Liyuan, the wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, met with Denise Nyakeru Tshisekedi, the wife of President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Felix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, in Beijing on Friday. Peng appreciated Denise Nyakeru’s efforts to improve the health and well-being of African women, children and adolescents as vice president of the Organization of African First Ladies for Development (OAFLAD). Peng said that the Chinese side maintains friendly exchanges with the OAFLAD…

The presidents of China and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) announced on Friday the elevation of the bilateral relationship from astrategic partnership of win-win cooperation to a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership. China and the DRC are strategic partners with a profound traditional friendship forged in the course of fighting for national liberation and opposing colonial aggression, Chinese President Xi Jinping said in his talks with visiting DRC President Felix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo in Beijing. Bilateral cooperation in various fields…

ADDIS ABABA, May 27 (Xinhua) — As the African continent marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of the then Organization of African Unity (OAU), now the African Union (AU), realizing continental unity and development took center stage. The African continent on Thursday marked “Africa Day,” which is observed annually on May 25 to celebrate the achievements of the pan-African bloc from its creation on May 25, 1963. Since 32 heads of independent African states signed the OAU Charter creating Africa’s…

The United States has enjoyed global economic and political dominance for decades, thanks in large part to the status of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency. However, the growing U.S. debt burden, political polarization and partisanship in Washington, and the rise of other countries, bring into question the longevity of America’s preeminent global position. If current fiscal and political trends continue unabated, a weaker dollar and diminished geopolitical influence will be largely inevitable. In June, the U.S. Congress…

NAIROBI, May 25 (Xinhua) — The Horn of Africa is currently grappling with a combined effect of drought and floods, which are devastating people’s lives and livelihoods, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said on Thursday. Cyril Ferrand, FAO’s resilience team leader for East Africa, noted that the March-to-May rains were normal for the first time after three years or five seasons of drought, leading to floods that have seen thousands displaced. “The long-term drought made…

LILONGWE, May 26 (Xinhua) — Malawi’s new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths plunged by 73 percent and 69 percent in 2022 from 2010, authorities said on Wednesday. New HIV infections in the country have tumbled from 56,500 in 2010 to 15,000 in 2022 while AIDS-related deaths from 36,000 in 2010 to 11,100 in 2022, said Andrew Gonani, acting CEO of Malawi’s National AIDS Commission, at a dissemination meeting for the Undetectable = Untransmittable (U=U) Campaign. The U=U is a global…

BEIJING, May 24 (Xinhua) — Li Shulei, a senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC), on Wednesday met with foreign representatives who attended the China-Central Asia News Agency Forum in Beijing. Li, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, said the China-Central Asia Summit held last week has drawn up a new blueprint for cooperation between the two sides, providing strategic guidance and…