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The Belt and Road Initiative has already amassed huge international goodwill with participation of more than 100 countries and organizations, in a cooperation arrangement that is open, inclusive, balanced and beneficial for all countries involved. Originally, the coast of East Africa, where the famous Chinese navigator Zheng He traveled over 500 years ago to inaugurate the historical precursor to contemporary Chinaafrica cooperation and friendship, was the only part of Africa covered in the traditional Maritime Silk Road. However, in the new, up and running framework of the Belt and Road Initiative, the whole of Africa is well within the open and inclusive process. The critical challenge of infrastructure network to complement the long held aspiration for a united and integrated Africa has found a practical and powerful impetus in the Chinadriven international cooperating framework. Free of a grand institutional behemoth-like separate secretariat and formal redtape, the