What are the main contents of China s development assistance to Africa in recent years?

The difference between the model of Chinese and Western aid to Africa:

I. Characteristics of China's Aid to Africa.

Aid to Africa is an important part of China's foreign aid, which reflects the characteristics of China's foreign aid, which is mainly manifested in the following aspects:

1. Ditch any strings attached.

China does not attach any political strings to its aid to Africa and upholds the right of African countries to choose their own development models. In January 2006, China's Policy Document on Africa pointed out that China will continue to provide and gradually increase assistance to African countries within its capacity and without political conditions in accordance with its own financial and economic development.

2. Keep your promises.

After announcing a series of aid projects and making aid commitments to Africa, China** has actively taken measures to implement them and never issued "blank checks" to African countries, which has been well received by African recipient countries.

3. Prioritize the actual needs of Africa.

China has given priority to the needs of African countries in determining specific assistance projects. The aid projects are mainly based on infrastructure construction and personnel training, which complement Western aid and fill the gap in aid to Africa. Livelihood projects such as education, health care, and poverty alleviation are also the focus of China's assistance to Africa.

II. Characteristics of Western Countries' Aid to Africa.

Western developed countries have been providing aid to Africa for a long time, and Western countries have formed their own characteristics by using aid as an important policy tool to maintain relations with Africa

1. The scale of assistance is large.

Western countries occupy a major position in today's international aid system. After World War II, Western countries invested more than $1 trillion in aid to Africa. According to the data, the total amount of bilateral official development assistance (ODA) provided to Africa by the member countries of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) reached $100 million in 2011.

2. Aid is subject to political conditionalities.

Western countries often attach political conditionalities to their aid to Africa. Assistance will be available only to African countries that meet the standards of democracy and good governance and that they demand the transformation of their political and economic systems. Some of the countries most in need may not receive it.

While providing aid to Africa with funds and technology, Western countries are also trying to "help" Africa with their values and codes of conduct.

3. Pay attention to coordination and cooperation with all parties.

Western countries advocate strengthening cooperation with other donors in the field of assistance to Africa. They held that in the field of development cooperation, the aid policies of various countries to Africa should complement each other and strengthen mutual coordination and consultation. At the same time, Western countries also attach great importance to dialogue and cooperation with emerging donors, and hope that all countries can work together in a transparent and orderly environment.

Western aid to Africa generally comes with political conditions, such as supporting a certain organization, opening military bases, ports, and obtaining special economic benefits. China's aid, on the other hand, is purely for the sake of gaining international support and making a fortune for both sides, and does not interfere with other people's internal affairs. So in contrast, poor African countries prefer Chinese aid.

We are very concerned about the outbreak in African countries, and we are also very worried. We have actively participated in anti-epidemic cooperation with Africa and provided assistance to African countries to the best of our ability. The first is to give full play to the role of our foreign aid medical teams to assist African countries in controlling the epidemic.

It has been 57 years since our Commission sent medical teams to African countries, and now nearly 1,000 medical team members have been working in Africa for a long time. So far, we have carried out more than 250 training and health education activities, trained more than 10,000 people, and issued more than 800 multilingual announcements and prevention and control guidelines, covering the vast number of African people and our overseas Chinese in Africa, and achieved very positive results. For example, our medical team has carried out training in local hospitals to improve the ability of local medical staff to identify and diagnose the epidemic and clinical treatment, and has also established a communication mechanism with the health departments of the above-mentioned countries and the representative offices of the World Health Organization in the region.

We assisted the Ethiopian medical team and assisted the Ethiopian Ministry of Health to complete the commissioning of the equipment for PCR testing reagents, making Ethiopia the second country in Africa to have the capacity to test COVID-19 nucleic acid for the new coronavirus.

The second is to carry out expert exchanges, set up a remote expert guidance team in China, and carried out technical exchanges with 54 African countries through remote meetings, and provided technical support to African countries in a timely manner to ensure that these countries can obtain the support of China's high-quality medical resources.

We also support the Africa CDC's role in epidemic prevention and control, and our long-term advisors to Africa CDC participated in the Africa CDC's task force on the epidemic response, participated in the epidemic prevention and control on the ground, and provided a lot of valuable advice. African countries have said that China's experience has an important reference for them and expressed their gratitude for China's support. We will continue to provide support to African countries to the best of our ability to improve their capacity to respond to the pandemic, and to contribute to global health security.