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China-Africa Trade Forum Opens in Zhejiang Province

by Eric Olander

400 participants from 47 different African countries are participating in this week’s China-Africa trade and economic relations forum now underway in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang.

The event highlights the increasingly prominent role that Chinese provinces are playing in the broader China-Africa relationship. Zhejiang and the central province of Hunan are among the most active, with both serving as key African trading hubs.

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