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ADDIS ABABA, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) – The Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) is an “important forum” that has resulted in important achievements in Africa over the years, said an Ethiopian public policy expert.
“When we look at the FOCAC, it is an important forum that has resulted in great achievements in Africa specifically,” Costantinos Bt. Costantinos, a public policy professor at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, said in a recent exclusive interview with Xinhua.
The expert, who also served as an economic advisor to the African Union Commission (AUC) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), also stressed that the FOCAC “is not a kind of colonial and post-colonial relationship that Africa has with others, where it becomes mainly only resource extraction. “
According to the expert, in addition to the successful ties between China and Africa under the FOCAC platform, China “is providing development imputations to African countries.”
“We can look at Ethiopia now, we have built 74 km of roads. This was done in a significant way with Chinese loans and assistance. We have built around 20 hydroelectric dams and more than 50 universities have been established in Ethiopia, we have 11 industrial parks. , planned fertilizers and sugar factors … This is an example of FOCAC, where China-Africa cooperation is bearing fruit, ”argued the expert.
The expert also highlighted that “FOCAC has been a great success.”
Costantinos also stressed that Sino-African cooperation “has become a South-South Cooperation, in which the Chinese experience of lifting its people out of poverty, building its industrial prows, using its resources very efficiently and developing its technology can be shared with African countries, which the West has never done in Africa. “
In addition to FOCAC, China-Africa cooperation occurs in important ways, including the Belt and Road Initiative, which provides resources, he argued.
According to Costantinos, the existing China-Africa cooperation is also playing “a vital role in strengthening the burgeoning ties in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.”
He also stressed that China’s economic recovery will further strengthen existing Chinese support for African countries, coming from different sources that also include the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), “will be an important driving force for developing nations Africa are able to develop their economy and infrastructure from the impact of COVID-19 “.
Costantinos emphasized that China has “many resources and the fact that Chinese cooperation goes big is the difference between China and the Western world.”
“Today we have to look at China as a potential to stabilize African economies, not to disintegrate it,” he said. Final product
