offer indeed a strange coincidence only bought in frankfurt for us thank you china's president hu jin payne has just announced that his country is to provide sixty billion dollars in financial support to africa and expand its imports from the constant continent especially manufactured products the move is welcome in the wake of growing concerns that by building costly infrastructure on the continent it's also saddling the partner countries with that. african leaders have high hopes for what chinese investment can do for their countries beijing's presence in the region has grown exponentially since its emergence as a global trading power now africa has become a cornerstone in beijing's global belt and road project in sierra leone for example president julius marder b o c s china's thirst for investment as a way for his country to catch the wave of globalization. and there are so many benefits to globalization so force we want to be a part of the world community but the large investments which chinese state owned companies have pursued so aggressively in africa have not been an exercise in ph