On 20 February, Chinese President Xi Jinping, hosting Senegalese visiting President Macky Sall in Beijing said, “In 2013, Chinese-African trade surpassed $200 billion for the first time, making China Africa’s biggest trading partner. That all stands witness to the endlessly renewed vitality of Sino-African friendship, to the scale of the potential for cooperation and the excellent outlook for the new kind of Sino-African strategic partnership.” Xi added that that Chinese direct investment in Africa grew 44 percent.

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