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World Insights: China's success inspires Africa to seek independent development path

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Chinese instructor Jiang Liping (right) and apprentice Horace Owiti walk past a train carriage on the Mombasa-Nairobi Railway in Nairobi, Kenya, May 23, 2023. The Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway in Kenya has become a flagship project of China-Africa cooperation, a "business card" of Chinese enterprises and a demonstration project of the Belt and Road Initiative. [Xinhua/Wang Guansen]

Inspired by China's development over the decades, more and more African countries are seeking to follow the development paths that suit their own domestic conditions.

At the China-Africa Leaders' Dialogue held in South Africa's Johannesburg in late August, Chinese President Xi Jinping once again encouraged African countries to find the path that suits Africa best.

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