Keynote address by Justin Lin (Peking University) on ‘How to Jumpstart Industrialization and Structural Transformation in Africa’. This took place at a joint SAIIA/DEGRP workshop on ‘China-Africa: a maturing relationship? Growth, change and resilience,’ on 3 December 2015. The one-day workshop brought together researchers from DEGRP’s China-Africa research stream and SAIIA, as well as other participants from academia and the private sector, to discuss key issues influencing Sino-African relations.