In China's vast rice breeding community, Hu Fengyi is in the minority.

As part of its commitment to help Africa improve food security, China is promoting perennial rice technology that has highly been hailed by both experts and farmers.

The 37th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Assembly of the Heads of State and Government opened on Saturday at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.

Cairo, Egypt, November 10, 2023 – The South-South Investment Forum, an event organized by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) jointly with the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), and the Export-Import Bank of China (China Eximbank), has successfully concluded. The forum, which took place during the 3rd Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF2023), served as a platform for dialogue focusing on actionable strategies for mobilizing South-South investments among the world's emerging economies.

Chinese enterprise CRJE in Uganda, a subsidiary of China Railway Construction Engineering Group Co. Ltd, has supported children with disabilities here with home-use items and food ahead of Christmas celebrations.

The newest edition of UNIDO’s flagship publication, the Industrial Development Report 2024 (IDR2024), stresses the pivotal role that industry can play in delivering sustainable development solutions, given its strong impact on social and environmental goals. Participants at a pre-launch event, “Industrial Policy for a Fair Globalization: Insights from the Industrial Development Report 2024”, heard how progress on industry-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in relation to clean energy, decent work and innovation has been slower than hoped for, especially in developing countries. There is an urgent need for new industrial policies that are aligned with the SDGs.

As leaders of five emerging economies prepare to convene for the 15th BRICS summit on Aug 22 to 24 in South Africa, there are high expectations among observers about the outcomes of the meeting.

​South Africa, which holds the BRICS rotating presidency in 2023, will host the 15th BRICS Summit in Johannesburg this month. The meeting will be the first physical meeting of BRICS leaders since the outbreak of Covid-19, which is of great significance. China believes that leaders of BRICS countries will gather again in South Africa to discuss plans for BRICS co-operation and draw a blueprint for BRICS development, which will surely inject new and strong impetus into BRICS co-operation.

Chinese and Algerian workers are braving the extreme heat, busy laying asphalt and making final preparations for the opening of the road to traffic.

Zimbabwean Energy and Power Development Minister Soda Zhemu said here on Monday that prolonged power cuts are "now a thing of the past" in Zimbabwe following the completion of Hwange Thermal Power Station Unit 7 and 8 expansion project.