President Xi Jinping will lay out his blueprint for growing China’s relationship with Africa, as debt criticisms and his nation’s slowing economy limit Beijing’s ability to build influence through lending.

Analysts of China-Africa relations are mostly looking for signals of increased trade and infrastructure financing but not a return to the highs of the mid-2010s.

Leaders from 50 African nations are expected to gather in Beijing on Wednesday for the 9th triennial China-Africa Cooperation summit — aimed at deepening strategic coordination between China and Africa – but China’s ongoing economic woes have shifted the tone considerably.