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How successful was China’s plan to install satellite TV in African countries?

Satellite TV project in ten thousand villages
image captionSatellite TV project in ten thousand villages

  • author, Shun Yuan
  • position, BBC Global China Unit

As African leaders gathered in Beijing for the triennial China-Africa summit, Chinese President Xi Jinping had one thing to brag about: satellite TV.

Nearly nine years ago, President Xi Jinping promised heads of state attending the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCEC) in Johannesburg that China would provide digital TV access to more than 10,000 remote villages and towns in 23 African countries. will do

So far more than 9600 villages have been provided satellite infrastructure and now the project is nearing completion.

During the period of good Sino-African relations, this ambitious project was entrusted to a private company called Star Times, which was already operating in several African countries.

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