10 'Senegalese merchant turned out to be a foreign mediator for the dispute mediation commission in Yiwu', http://www.guancha.cn/video/2015_02_04_308534.shtml. (Accessed 24 February 2015.)
11 See a special issue entitled 'Foreign Lives in a Globalising City: Africans in Guangzhou' edited by Gordon Mathews, Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, Issue 44, p. 4, 2015.  
Africans have played a dynamic role in bringing their cultures to China, which has contributed to various people-to-people contacts. As a Ghanaian government official and later a student in China for five years, Lloyd Adu Amoah used his own experience to demonstrate how 'Africa remakes China'. He states that the African diaspora can act with agency in Africa-China relations through behaviour, appearance, marriage and so on, and that the response from the Chinese is positive, thus challenging the conventional view that Africans act passively in China-Africa relations (Amoah, 2012, pp. 110-121). Their cultural offering enriches multiculturalism in China. African painting, sculpture, dance and musical instruments enjoy popularity among ordinary Chinese people (Hai Jun, 2001, pp. 61-63; Wang Hanjie, 2013). Similarities exist between the two cultures and mutual understanding is always beneficial to both (Li Anshan, 2012, pp. 93-97).  
In recent years, there has been a rise in Afro-Chinese marriages in China, especially in Guangzhou. ${ }^{12}$ This phenomenon has caught the attention of the media, both in China and internationally. ${ }^{13}$ Intermarriage has promoted cultural exchange, but lack of mutual understanding has also caused some problems. A Shanghai grandmother picked up an abandoned black baby 15 years ago and gave him a Chinese name 'Zhu Junlong'. She brought him up through kindergarten, primary school and middle school despite various difficulties. Zhu Junlong received a Shanghai registration identity in 2014 and Madam Zhu went through the procedure of adoption. ${ }^{14}$  
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