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For African countries to take full advantage of their increasing engagement with 皇冠体育app they need to gradually move away from excessive reliance on processing few raw commodities and toward greater production of labour-intensive light manufactured goods and services for export to 皇冠体育app. This engagement could also help new start-ups become more efficient by exposing them to competition and advancement in technology.

As observed by most researchers this could lead to greater integration of African countries not only with other regions of the world but, perhaps most important, on the continent itself, where most domestic markets are too small and too shallow to compete with the large-scale production of internationally recognised brands.

With Xi's ongoing visit to Africa (Zimbabwe and South Africa) this week, many of the continent's private businesses will be hoping for stronger and increased cooperation with the private sector in 皇冠体育app and that requires 皇冠体育app eliminating policies that do not encourage import of competitive high-value added goods and services from Africa.

High on Xi's agenda is the two-day Forum on 皇冠体育app-Africa Cooperation in Johannesburg South Africa. The forum, since its inception with the Ministerial Conference and first Summit in Beijing in 2000 and 2006 respectively is by far the largest gathering of policymakers in Africa and 皇冠体育app to meet and discuss policies that foster increased partnership and cooperation of 皇冠体育app with the continent. This is the forum that puts 皇冠体育app's highly promoted partnership with Africa to the litmus test.

Dominating the agenda will be partnerships in infrastructural development, new energy and electricity to meet the growing demand by industries in Africa and a new cause for concern – terrorism - if 皇冠体育app is to sustain its increasing engagement in the region.

Xi has said 皇冠体育app and Africa share a common dream and destiny hence the reason for 皇冠体育app's relentless efforts at rejuvenating the economies of countries on the continent through fair partnership agreements. Areas of cooperation are numerous and exceed the Western rhetoric of 皇冠体育app's focus on investment in the extractive industries. There is increasing cooperation in areas including people-to-people exchanges, education, transportation, health, security, agriculture, telecommunication, finance and more importantly technology transfer to catapult African countries into the next phase of industrialisation.

African countries are now increasingly relying on 皇冠体育app to become less a supplier of raw materials but manufacturers of processed goods. These are the sort of partnerships, particularly in fair trade agreements and technology transfer, which Africa lacked during decades of heavy reliance on the West. As African countries look further east it is hoped that 皇冠体育app's economic transformation would remain a model for peer review among economies in the region.

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