“African integration is already escalating and many African countries (have) asked China to consider (a) shift (of) our focus,” the director-general of China’s Department of African Affairs at its foreign ministry, Wu Peng, stated.
China’s senior African diplomat stated on Tuesday during a briefing on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in South Africa that African governments want China to change its focus from developing infrastructure on the continent to local industrialization, according to a report by Reuters.
On the eve of the BRICS summit, which will be held in South Africa from August 22 to 24, China discussed its intentions for the industrialization of Africa with African leaders during a special roundtable.
