More than a million Chinese migrants now work and live on the African continent, while the number of Africans in China is thought to be around half that.
It’s a relationship that is not restricted just to trade.
Interracial marriages between Chinese and Africans are on the rise – from China‘s increasing investment in and trade with Africa has come an increase in migrants from Africa.
Al Jazeera’s Adrian Brown reports from Liaoning, northeast China.
