Staff members appreciate wine from South Africa at the commodity service center for products of the BRICS countries in Xiamen City, southeast China’s Fujian Province, June 23, 2022. (Xinhua/Wei Peiquan) BEIJING, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) — As a new channel for foreign trade, cross-border e-commerce is injecting fresh impetus into China-Africa trade, bringing popularity to more and more African commodities in the Chinese market. In the first half of the year, the trade volume between China and Africa increased 16.6 percent to 137.4 billion U.S. dollars, among which China’s imports from African countries hit 60.6 billion U.S. dollars, rising 19.1 percent…