it's an optimistic goal for the people living here in the rubble of lombok. when china invests abroad it mobilizes lots and lots of money at a major forum an early september chinese president xi jinping pledge sixty billion dollars in assistance to africa in form of investments development aid and loans. more than ten thousand chinese companies are operating in africa they build roads rail lines harbors and airports those infrastructure measures are needed locally and they help export raw materials back to china and the hunger for natural resources is also attracting triangle's businesses to latin america two hundred fifty billion dollars are set to flow there by twenty twenty five but this