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Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks during the opening ceremony of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) in Beijing, China, January 16, 2016. REUTERS/Mark Schiefelbein/Pool - RTX22M7B
BEIJING - China's financial institutions will soon launch a special fund of $10 billion to implement the Global Development Initiative, President Xi Jinping said on Thursday.
China will also increase cooperation with African countries, including providing a complete set of data products for satellite mapping, Xi said at a BRICS leaders summit in South Africa's Johannesburg.
(Reporting by Ethan Wang and Liz Lee; editing by Christina Fincher)