China has been able to help tar the distance
of Cape Town to Cairo,
which is 9,000 miles,
or three times the distance of New York to California.
Now this is something that people can see and point to.
Perhaps it's no surprise
that in a 2007 Pew survey, when surveyed,
Africans in 10 countries said
they thought that the Chinese were doing
amazing things to improve their livelihoods
by wide margins, by as much as 98 percent.
Finally, China is also providing innovative solutions
to age-old social problems that the world faces.
If you travel to Mogadishu, Mexico City or Mumbai,
you find that dilapidated infrastructure and logistics
continue to be a stumbling block
to the delivery of medicine and healthcare
in the rural areas.
However, through a network of state-owned enterprises,
the Chinese have been able to go into these rural areas,
using their companies