1. Introduction
Since independence, African integration has been seen as important measure to accelerate Africa's economic development. United Nations Economic Commission for Africa report in 2004 pointed out: the rapidly changing global economic environment requires the African faster, more strategically to promote the integration process (Ohajionu, 2007). Whether the Africa needs through the African internal economic integration to create the regional economic organizations with more scale and more competition for occupying a larger global market share, has been controversial. On the one hand, economic integration will solve the structural problems long plagued in a number of countries in Africa, but also increases the vulnerability of the economy, offsets by the elimination of poverty. On the other hand, the African political, economic and social problems also limit the internal integration process.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 3
2. China's achievements in Africa and the reasons 4
3. Plight of Europe-Africa relations and the reasons 5
4. Africa how to choose their own development path 7
5. The EU how to understand and evaluate China's influence in Africa? 8
5.1 Positive evaluation 8
5.2 Negative evaluation 9
6. China's focus to Europe 10
6.1 Open up the "New Silk Road" 11
6.2 Taking in China-EU cooperation 11
7. Conclusion 12
References 14
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