China on Tuesday defended its consistent Africa policy, refuting claims that China has ignored local sustainable development while providing assistance to African continent.

"The criticism from some organizations on China's Africa policy is totally unacceptable," said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu.

Some non-governmental organizations claimed that China ignores problems like corruption, human rights and environmental protection while helping the poor African nations build dams or other infrastructure.

Jiang said China's assistance to the Africa countries is aimed at improving their self-development ability instead of imposing its own development mode and ideology.

"China holds that Africa's internal affairs should be addressed by their own governments and people, while the assistance from outside should help the African countries achieve stability and development through their own efforts," said Jiang.

On preferable loans to Africa, Jiang said China has offered loans with no strings attached, which are mainly used for infrastructure in a just, open and transparent manner.

"China lends limited loans to the African nations and is not a major creditor nation of Africa," said Jiang.

She also called on the developed nations to take more substantial steps to help Africa reduce poverty.

"The international community, especially the developed nations, should also cut down on Africa's debts by a large margin so that the developing nations can shake off vicious cycle of debts," Jiang added.

Source: Xinhua