BUJUMBURA – China’s development roadmap in the 1980s has yielded positive results, and it can inspire Africa and especially Burundi, an international relations expert said Wednesday.
”I believe that the Chinese development roadmap can inspire many African countries in general and Burundi in particular, because China also faced economic difficulties before the 1980s,” Etienne Buregeya, a lecturer at the University of Burundi, told Xinhua in an interview.
”China made tremendous policy reforms and this allowed the country to be amongst the world’s economic powers,” he said.
Despite the fact that China is still regarded as a developing country, it is ”now competing” with the United States in terms of economic growth, the expert said.
He said China’s economic growth could be attributed to its ”deep reforms,” the adoption of policies suitable to the Chinese reality and a hard-working spirit. China’s development roadmap inspires Africa|Politics|chinadaily.com.cn.
