Real benefits for Africa

Despite the accusations of the West, Chinese companies offer practical concrete assistance and true friendship

Some in the West have got used to looking at China's booming cooperation with African countries from a distorted perspective, citing China's moves in recent years as an attempt to plunder the abundant resources in the vast land and convert the underdeveloped continent into an important raw material supply base for its own economic development.

Such a conclusion is based on the assumption that Sino-African cooperation is confined to the field of resources and that Chinese people are willing to use any tactics, including unscrupulous ones, to gain from local partners what they want.