During the 35-day training course, they learned from Li Mingxu, the fifth generation successor of the Jinzhou Lion Dance, a provincial intangible cultural heritage that has been passed from generation to generation for more than a century

China has set 2020 as the target year to complete the building of a "moderately prosperous society," which requires the eradication of poverty

Some of China's practices are also worth learning, such as how it trains its officials

He said the visit was quite fruitful thanks to the enthusiasm for cooperation in the western African countries he has visited

Shi Yongming, a researcher at the China Institute of International Relations, said the US never tries to determine what its own problem is, but insists on blaming China for the current tensions