The Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) has officially flagged of in Johannesburg, South Africa, with more than 40 African leaders personally attending.
China is making promises of heavier infrastructural, as well as agricultural capacity building initiatives.
President Muhammadu Buhari will meet with the Chinese President, Ki Jinping, for bilateral talks. He is also expected to meet business leaders later in the day.
Buhari arrived South Africa on Thursday evening for the FOCAC. He is also expected to discuss ways of removing all obstacles in the way of the 3,050 megawatts Mambila Power Station, considered a strategic project which was conceived in 1982 but has not taken off.
