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Accepted Paper:
Envision A Development Approach: Africans’ Perception on Chinese Economic Experience
Zhenqian Huang
(College of Humanities and Development Studies,China Agricultural University)
Xiuli Xu
(College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricultural University)
Paper short abstract:
By surveying more than 800 Africans in 2020 and 2021, this paper contributes to the diffusion of developmental knowledge of an emerging power in the South and it helps us to understand how local people in Africa envision its future development model by interacting with the world.
Paper long abstract:
In the wide-spreading interest in China’s rapid economic growth and its impacts on the rest of the world, this paper starts demystifying four narratives prevailing particularly in the Northern partners in the development community. Upon this intellectual landscape, this paper attempts to fill the lacuna on the South perceptions of China’s development experiences and its impacts globally by surveying more than 800 Africans in 2020 and 2021. It finds Africans believe that China’s development experiences challenged the West's experiences but the two can coexist. African believe that the Chinese development experiences are most relevant to African countries in terms of exploring self-reliant development and improving the development effectiveness, among which three elements are the key, namely, science and technology, industrialization strategy, and giving priority to economic growth. Finally, the survey also identifies the potential risks in the discrepancy of China’s official narrative and that of perception of the South. This paper contributes to the diffusion of developmental knowledge of an emerging power in the South. Also, this paper helps us to understand how local people in Africa envision its future development model by interacting with the world.
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Accepted Paper:
Zhenqian Huang (College of Humanities and Development Studies,China Agricultural University) Xiuli Xu (College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricultural University)
Paper short abstract:
Paper long abstract:
In the wide-spreading interest in China’s rapid economic growth and its impacts on the rest of the world, this paper starts demystifying four narratives prevailing particularly in the Northern partners in the development community. Upon this intellectual landscape, this paper attempts to fill the lacuna on the South perceptions of China’s development experiences and its impacts globally by surveying more than 800 Africans in 2020 and 2021. It finds Africans believe that China’s development experiences challenged the West's experiences but the two can coexist. African believe that the Chinese development experiences are most relevant to African countries in terms of exploring self-reliant development and improving the development effectiveness, among which three elements are the key, namely, science and technology, industrialization strategy, and giving priority to economic growth. Finally, the survey also identifies the potential risks in the discrepancy of China’s official narrative and that of perception of the South. This paper contributes to the diffusion of developmental knowledge of an emerging power in the South. Also, this paper helps us to understand how local people in Africa envision its future development model by interacting with the world.
The rise of China and the re-scaling global development politics
Session 1 Friday 8 July, 2022, -