ABSTRACT
The Africa-China Reporting Project was established at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in 2009 to provide support for African and Chinese journalists reporting on China’s growing presence in and relations with Africa, and the impact on Africa’s peoples. Africa is a diverse continent, and China’s impact and involvement is different country by country. In 2013, Huang Hongxiang spent three months on an environmental journalism fellowship in South Africa, a collaboration between the Project and a local environmental investigative reporting non-governmental organizations (NGO). In 2014, Hongxiang set up China House, a Nairobi-based NGOs that aims to assist Chinese people to better integrate into Africa via corporate social responsibility and community engagement activities. Chinese and African officials are increasingly emphasizing the development of people-to-people linkages, because while official relations have grown rapidly, these ties have remained predominantly political and economic in nature, and the promotion of understanding between Africa and China is often folded into the official agenda.
