China Says African Countries Want Iindustrialisation Over Infrastructure
KONTAN.CO.ID - JOHANNESBURG. African countries want China to shift its focus from building infrastructure on the continent to local industrialization, China's top Africa diplomat said on Tuesday at a briefing on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in South Africa.
"African integration is already escalating and many African countries (have) asked China to consider (a) shift (of) our focus," Wu Peng, director-general of China's Department of African Affairs at its foreign ministry, said.
