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Chinese interests are to help draw up a national development plan for Congo-Kinshasa

China's activities in Congo-Kinshasa began with mining, moved into infrastructure and are now more ambitious still: they are diversifying into national development planning. Relations were strengthened by President Joseph Kabila's visit for the opening of the Beijing Olympic Games, which coincided with Prime Minister Antoine Gizenga's holiday in China....

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