China has provided 360 billion yuan to Africa to enhance its relations with Africa

In the next three years, China will provide 360 billion yuan to promote the implementation of the "Ten partnership actions" for modernization, including building a platform for the exchange of governance experience between China and Africa, providing military assistance, and creating at least one million jobs.

China's trade frictions with the Western camp led by the United States have been constant and diplomatic relations have been difficult, at this time, China has thrown a number of preferential measures to Africa, so that the outside world has the impression that it intends to draw Africa to compete with the West.

Wang Yiwei, a professor at the School of International Relations of Renmin University of China, analyzed to Lianhe Zaobao that the "Ten partnership actions" announced by China are traditional Chinese medicine that treat both symptoms and root causes, and are not the head of Western pain medicine. China and Africa used to be brothers and sisters, and China's development now gives Africa great encouragement. Africa used to learn from the West and become "four unlike", "They are also reflecting on why they can't grow up."

He said that the modernization process of the West has brought heavy suffering to the vast number of developing countries, and proposed that China and Africa should work together to promote "just and reasonable modernization", stressing that the general law of modernization should be followed, but more in line with national realities.

He pointed out that the dream of modernization jointly pursued by China and Africa will surely set off a wave of modernization in the global South. The Global South is a cluster of emerging market and developing countries. It is believed that China actively dominates the Global South and intends to use the Global South as a platform to promote the implementation of its own strategic goals and global initiatives. China sees itself as a member of the global South, of which Africa is a critical majority.

The ten initiatives include mutual learning among civilizations, trade prosperity, industrial chain cooperation, connectivity, development cooperation, health, agriculture and people's well-being, people-to-people exchanges, green development, and security. It covers politics, security, economy, health, culture and other fields, with China providing preferential treatment and training to Africa.

The "Partnership Action on Mutual Learning among Civilizations" has a political dimension, involving the exchange of governance experience between China and Africa and the training of governance talents.

China has repeatedly stated that it will not export the "China model". Will the exchange of governance experience and training of governance talents between China and Africa be seen as exporting the "China model"? Wang Yiwei pointed out that there is no Chinese model, only Chinese experience, and that China and Africa are purely exchanges of governance and economic experience, and China is helping African leaders to train them at their request, such as how to fight poverty and anti-corruption.

Under the "Building Partnership for Security" initiative, China will provide one billion yuan of free military assistance to Africa, train 6,000 military personnel and 1,000 police and law enforcement officers for Africa, and invite 500 young officers to visit China. Carry out joint military exercises and training, joint patrols, and maintain the safety of personnel and projects.

The economic field involves many aspects. China has taken the initiative to unilaterally expand market opening and granted zero tariff treatment to all the least developed countries, including 33 African countries, that have established diplomatic relations with China. China will expand access to African agricultural products and deepen cooperation in e-commerce and other fields. China is ready to implement 1,000 "small but American" livelihood projects and inject funds into the China-World Bank Partnership Fund to help Africa's development. China is ready to implement 30 infrastructure connectivity projects in Africa to promote high-quality Belt and Road cooperation.

China will also provide one billion yuan in emergency food aid to Africa. We will encourage Chinese and African companies to invest and start businesses in a two-way way, retain added value of their industries in Africa, and create at least one million jobs for Africa.

​ To promote green development in Africa, China is willing to implement 30 clean energy projects in Africa.