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This paper examines cooperation between China and Africa as well as how China can help African countries transform their own economies by sharing the lessons it has learned through its own economic restructuring process. The authors first provide an overview of China’s transition from a planned economy to a market economy including what strategies the country used in this process. They then analyze the form of cooperation that exists between China and African countries and argue that it is not based on a donor-client relationship, but rather on one in which both parties work together to support each other’s structural economic transformation processes.