Legislative leaders from across the African continent have also shared their perspective on the summit.

TULIA ACKSON President, Inter-Parliamentary Union Speaker, National Assembly of Tanzania "I'd like to commend china's policy in terms of how it deals with international issues, how it deals with its partner states, how it deals with friendly nations. This is a cooperation that is based on mutual respect at the same time, mutual trust. I see that growing to higher levels of being together, but also cooperating in other issues that come at multilateral level, including the issue of peace and security."

PETER KATJAVIVI Namibian Speaker of Parliament "We also hold the view that this particular get -together will prepare the leadership from Africa and China to look beyond certain issues, particularly issues around capacity building, drawing the necessary lessons from some of the technological development achieved by China."

TLOHANG SEKHAMANE Speaker to the National Assembly of Lesotho "I think the authorities here have achieved what many other authorities are struggling to achieve. It is lucky in that China already has the resources and the determination and the leadership that cares about the world and about the global south. I have seen democracy at work. I have seen people that care about everybody in China and that care about the world."

SEBASTIEN PILLAY Leader of the Opposition, National Assembly of Seychelles "I think the Chinese president put it as a global civilization initiative so that you understand that you're part of a global community at the same time how that global community benefits everyone without no one forcing their way on anybody else."

KGOSI PUSO GABORONE Paramount Chief, Batlokwa Tribe of Tlokweng in Botswana "Every time our leadership has come here to attend the FOCAC summit, what is important is what is it that we can learn? We always talk of win win. I think the two countries can work together and improve on the food sector. It's aligned to what at home our president has been preaching to say, let us find the value chains out of those products so that we can grow our economy as a country."

NABWERA DARAJA NABII Member, National Assembly of Kenya "We are moving away from depending on importation to local production, we can only be able to do that. If we have enough pool of skilled manpower, then we have to twin with countries like China, which has an advanced technology, both in electronics and mechanical engineering."

JAMA MOHAMED ASKAR Chairperson, Somali-Chinese Parliamentary Friendship Group "In fact, China provided Somalia with scholarships. Some of the students are coming to China and learning agriculture and technologies. And this can be replicated back to Somalia. We will build partnership relations with China in these areas in the future."