When Chinese agricultural experts visited Mozambique a couple of years ago, they found a lot of rich but mismanaged soil. Highly dependent on weather, the rice yield per mu was only 100-200 kilograms there without scientific planting techniques.
China has vowed to further help African countries boost their vaccination drive, which Chinese observers said could significantly strengthen the continent s immunological barrier against the COVID-19 pandemic and tackle serious global vaccine inequality. The emergence of the new variant Omicron, which was first detected in South Africa, once again highlights the dire consequences of vaccine inequality in developing countries, especially in Africa, where only 6 percent of its population have been fully vaccinated.
Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend a forum on China-Africa cooperation via video link next week and is expected to put forward new measures for cooperation with Africa for the next three years in key areas including trade, investment and climate change as well as help the continent fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, senior officials from the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Friday when the country s first white paper on cooperation between the two sides in the past decades was launched.
Hehrt curiously watches workers install a satellite TV at the hospital in which he works. He rushes to the TV and changes channels after it’s been installed, and becomes very excited when there is a kung fu movie. “And it’s in English!” he says. “I used to watch Jackie Chan’s and Jet Li’s kung fu movies.”