China’s voracious appetite for natural resources
has driven a boom of investments and aid to African countries. In the Southern
African country of Zambia, Chinese companies are building roads, hospitals,
sports stadia as well as reviving copper mines abandoned in the country’s
Copperbelt region.
The Chinese have also chosen Zambia as the place to
set up its first out of five free trade zones in Africa. The Chambishi
multi-facility economic zone on the Copperbelt is anchored by a 200 m...
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