Chinese investment in DRC boosts ties

According to the ambassador, the China-DRC educational collaborations include a Chinese government scholarship to help more than 50 students study in China every year and trainings in China for dozens of DRC professionals annually.

On Aug 8, the National Library of DRC, which was renovated by a Chinese company, reopened to the public.

Local officials said the upgraded library will once again become a favorite venue for students, scholars and residents, according to a report on the website of the Chinese embassy in Kinshasa.

Another highlight of fruitful exchanges was the DRC-China Friendship Association founded on July 7 at the Chinese embassy in Kinshasa.

Wang said the association is expected to inject new vigor to the already booming bilateral ties.

"We hope this association will play a more important role in promoting political, business and cultural exchanges between our two countries," Wang said.

According to the embassy, China has been an active player in helping with the country's socioeconomic development through aid, preferential loans and training.

In Kinshasa, the Chinese-built DRC government complex was completed in December 2017 - the latest among 12 infrastructural projects included in a package of recent agreements between China and DRC, according to Wang. And this is not the last, because a cultural and arts center has been planned, the ambassador added.

In the fight against the recent Ebola virus outbreak in the country, the local people have not only received medicines and cash from the Chinese people, but also have had their diseases treated by volunteer doctors from China, according to Wang.

"During the 2018 Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, more concrete plans, both at a strategic level and in a longer term, will be mapped out, to further build up trust between China and Africa," Wang said, adding that "the people of DRC, as well as people from the rest of Africa, will benefit."