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A Chinese technician explains cultivation skills to a local mushroom grower in the suburb of Maseru, Lesotho [Wan Yu/People’s Daily]
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Agriculture and Environment
Rwandan peasants apply Chinese mushroom farming technology, with 2,000 local experts trained since 2014
Invented in the 1980s to address poverty through small-scale agricultural production in Fujian, juncao method requires minimal inputs to produce mushrooms in grass (1.2 tonnes/10m² of land annually) and has been exported to over 100 countries in 20 years
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Economy
Affordable Chinese-made vehicles gain popularity in Africa, where most countries have low motorization rates (less than 1 car/200 people, 2020)
Though 90% of internal combustion vehicles are Japanese (US $6,000-14,000), Chinese crossovers and SUVs (US $20,000) are growing quickly in South Africa, and new electric vehicles (<US $10,000) are entering local markets (Zimbabwe, Kenya, Egypt, Ghana)
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People’s Life and Culture
67,000 Kenyans have been trained in China since 2015 in engineering, health sciences, technology, agriculture, education and humanities
China-Kenya educational opportunities range from the four Confucius Institutes in Kenya and the Sino-Africa Joint Research Centre (Nairobi) to the 2,400 Kenyan students enrolled in Chinese learning institutions in 2019
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In Nigeria (July 1971), two Chinese athletes exchanged candy with local table tennis players and learned from each other