On the Sun-Kissed Land

“...Someone turned off the lights in the private dining room. Candlelight flickered as everyone sang ‘Happy Birthday.’ Some sang in Chinese, some in French, and some in English. It was chaotic, yet somehow in sync.” Twenty years ago, China-Africa cooperation set sail, and a group of young Chinese people met on the African continent. Among them were employees sent abroad by their companies, entrepreneurs venturing into Africa, and second-generation business owners sent by their families to make their mark on the world. They took on construction projects and traded goods, opened factories and mines. Some were content with simple pleasures, while others were filled with grand ambition. Friendship, romance, family ties, and bonds between fellow countrymen intertwined on a distant continent. Family and career, the individual and the collective, home and a foreign land: familiar conflicts took on new shades in unfamiliar surroundings. Through this book, we salute everyone who has striven in this era!