BEIJING -- Chinese President Xi Jinping and his African counterparts will have much to celebrate at the upcoming Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Johannesburg, South Africa next month. When the forum was first established in 2000, trade volume between China and Africa was only $10 billion. Now China has become the continent's largest trading partner, with trade volume expected to exceed $300 billion in 2015. By the end of 2014, more than 2,500 Chinese companies were conducting business in Africa, which has a total population of more than 1.1 billion. But China-Africa engagement is also at a crossroads, with China poised to have a long-term slower growth and Africa seeking to...
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