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[PDF] Africa: China's Environmental Footprint
China has great strategic interests in Africa, and Africa will benefit from a continued strengthening of its cooperation with China. Such South-South cooperation will promote growth and much-needed investment. However, as China's domestic experience demonstrates, economic growth should not come at the cost of environmental destruction. As a long-term partner in Africa's development, China has a self-interest in strengthening the rules on the social and environmental impacts of its overseas projects. China has begun the process of establishing guidelines for overseas investments. Given the speed of its global expansion, these guidelines will need to become more comprehensive, and deepened through binding regulations. [refers to Sinopec, Sinohydro, CNPC]