中非合作助力非洲实现自主可持续发展

中国与非洲始终是平等互信的好朋友、合作共赢的好伙伴和患难与共的好兄弟，无论国际风云如何变幻，始终是休戚与共的命运共同体和利益共同体。

中非合作互有需要、互有优势、互为机遇

中非有着相似的历史遭遇和共同的发展使命。过去，在争取民族解放、实现政治独立的道路上，我们始终并肩战斗、相互支持。如今，中非携手进入了新时代，在实现中华民族伟大复兴中国梦和全面发展振兴非洲梦新的征程中，团结奋进，致力于合作共赢、共同发展。

面对国际金融危机的冲击，中非携手并进、共克时艰；遭遇汶川、玉树地震灾害和埃博拉疫情时，中非相互驰援、守望相助；面对单边主义和霸凌行径，中非始终紧密协作，旗帜鲜明，坚定维护多边主义和国际公平正义。

中非合作互有需要、互有优势、互为机遇。非洲有54个国家、近13亿人口，拥有自然资源、人口红利、巨大发展潜力等后发优势，发展振兴、联合自强已成为非洲国家的共识和共同奋斗目标。非洲自贸区和经济一体化建设已取得重大突破。非洲国家清醒地认识到，非洲经济不独立，政治上就受制于人；只有实现自主可持续发展，才能摆脱外部干涉，才能摆脱贫困和冲突，实现持久和平。

中国已成为世界第二大经济体，具备资金、技术、装备、市场、人才等发展优势，更有真心诚意帮助非洲实现自主可持续发展的坚定政治意志，愿同非洲国家毫无保留地分享发展经验和成果。中非合作迎来了发展梯次对接的历史新机遇。

中非合作成果丰硕

进入新世纪特别是中国进入新时代以来，中非关系进入了全面、快速发展的新阶段，中非合作的广度、深度和热度前所未有。2013年习近平主席就任后首次出访即访问非洲，并提出了真实亲诚理念和正确义利观，其核心要义就是把中国发展同助力非洲实现自主可持续发展紧密结合起来，实现合作共赢、共同发展。

中非合作论坛已成为引领国际对非合作的一面旗帜。在中非合作论坛2015年约翰内斯堡峰会和2018年北京峰会上，习近平主席先后宣布了对非“十大合作计划”和“八大行动”，其核心要义就是要助力非洲加快工业化、农业现代化进程，支持非洲国家优先破解基础设施滞后、人才不足、资金短缺三大发展“瓶颈”，助力非洲实现自主可持续发展。

上述重大举措高度契合非洲国家渴望实现工业化、现代化发展的迫切诉求,重点支持非洲加强基础设施建设和人力资源开发，着力提升非洲自主发展能力，极大地促进中非合作共赢、共同发展。

中国已成为促进非洲快速发展的最重要关键伙伴。目前，非洲30%以上的基础设施项目,其中80%的通讯基础设施由中方融资建设或承建。中国已使用投融资帮助非洲建设了1万多公里公路，6000多公里铁路，150多个体育场馆、会议中心、议会大厦，200多所学校，80多座发电厂或电站以及诸多机场、港口等，惠及几乎所有非洲国家。

在中非合作论坛框架下，中国政府每3年向非洲提供3万至5万个政府奖学金，培训各领域实用技术与管理人才不少于20万人次。同时，鼓励各地方和在非洲投资企业提供奖学金名额和培训机会。目前，非洲在华各类留学生超过6万人。

中国已成为非洲发展最重要的利益攸关方。中国已连续10年成为非洲最大贸易伙伴，2018年双边贸易逆势而上，总额达2042亿美元，同比增长20%。中国对非洲各类投资已从2000年不到10亿美元增加到2018年的1100多亿美元。中非公民赴对方旅游人数快速上升。

中非互利合作已迈向转型升级新阶段，呈现出从以政府援助为主向企业投资融资合作为主转型，从一般商品贸易向产能合作和加工贸易升级，从简单的工程承包向投资建设运营和金融合作升级的强劲势头。

一带一路建设正成为促进中非共同发展的新引擎。当前，非洲已成为一带一路合作的重要方向,迄今已有44个非洲国家和非盟委员会同中国签署了共建一带一路合作文件。中非双方秉持“共商共建共享”理念，实现了一带一路倡议已同非盟《2063年议程》和非洲各国发展战略有效对接，共同致力于政策沟通、设施联通、贸易畅通、资金融通、民心相通“五通”建设，高质量、高标准、高水平推进互利合作。

中国是非洲实现自主可持续发展最可靠朋友和最强劲合作伙伴。2014年以来，美、欧、日等发达国家对非援助、投资、贸易均大幅下降。相反，在中非合作论坛和一带一路倡议强劲牵引下，中非产能合作快速推进，非洲铁路、公里、桥梁、港口、机场、通讯等一大批标志性基础设施建设项目相继竣工和建成，多数国家的互联互通建设取得明显成效，极大加速了非洲工业化进程。

中非合作受到国际社会普遍认可

非洲国家已经并正在快速崛起，并呈现出多速发展的强劲势头。2018年17个非洲国家GDP增速超过5%，其中,埃塞俄比亚、肯尼亚等东非国家GDP增速超过6%。据国际货币基金组织预测，2019年，非洲经济增长率将超过世界经济平均增长率；其中，GDP增长最快的国家一半以上在非洲，5%以上增长的非洲国家将达19个。

南非、埃塞俄比亚、肯尼亚、尼日利亚等国是一带一路对接非洲发展的桥头堡和成功范例。南非是最早与中国签署一带一路合作政府间谅解备忘录的非洲国家，也是一带一路建设的重要参与者和受益者。中国已连续十年成为南非最大的贸易伙伴，并已成为当前南非主要投资、游客来源国。南非已连续九年成为中国在非洲第一大贸易伙伴。2018年，中南双边贸易额达435.5亿美元，同比增长11.18%，占中非贸易总额的近四分之一。迄今，中国企业在南非直接投融资超过250亿美元，为当地累计创造40多万个就业岗位。

中国在埃塞投融资已近300亿美元，支持建设了连接亚的斯亚贝巴至吉布提铁路和现代化的吉布提港口，建设了铁路沿线若干产业园区和电网、通信、道路等互联互通，初步形成了铁路沿线产业带，助力埃塞这个昔日世界最贫困的国家发展成为当今世界经济增长最快的国家之一。过去10多年埃塞经济实现年均两位数增长。
中国支持肯尼亚融资建设了蒙内铁路，极大地促进了肯尼亚投资和旅游发展，带动肯尼亚GDP增长1.5%，物流成本最高降低40%，为当地直接创造了4.6万个就业岗位。

中国为尼日利亚提供了数百亿美元融资，两条铁路和大批公路、通讯、电力等基础设施项目已建成投入使用，尼日利亚第一所交通大学已奠基建设，1000多公里长的沿海铁路已完成项目可行性研究，即将开工建设。近年来，在中国的强劲支持下，尼日利亚基础设施建设取得显著成效，为其经济社会实现可持续发展奠定了坚实基础。

中非合作契合时代潮流，符合人民愿望，为南南合作和国际对非合作树立了典范，受到中非人民的欢迎和国际社会的普遍认可。

⬆由中国路桥工程有限责任公司承建的姆贝亚-卢万吉罗公路(图片提供 中国路桥工程有限责任公司)

愿积极开展涉非三方合作

我们高兴地看到，中非合作不仅促进了非洲国家经济多速增长和多样化发展，且正发挥着重要杠杆作用，带动国际社会更加重视对非合作和加大投入。

帮助非洲实现持久和平与自主可持续发展符合全世界人民的共同利益，也是国际社会的共同责任。中国对非合作始终秉持平等互利、开放包容的理念，致力于合作共赢、共同发展，从不封闭排他，绝不走西方强取豪夺的殖民老路，绝不以牺牲非洲的生态环境和长远利益为代价。

中国对非合作为国际对非合作树立了榜样。中非合作论坛设立了后续行动委员会机制，并创新举行成果落实协调人会议，确保双方达成的会议共识能及时对接、有效落实、早见成果、惠及人民。

中非合作论坛北京峰会召开以来，中方就“八大行动”落实工作同非方紧密对接，共同商定国别落实方案，确定了未来3年将实施880多个合作项目。今年6月，北京峰会成果落实协调人会议成功在北京举行,就下阶段合作思路达成重要共识,推动中非合作高质量、可持续发展。

非洲国家要实现工业化和现代化，普遍面临基础设施滞后、人才不足、资金短缺三大发展瓶颈，亟需国际社会大量投融资支持。据预测，非洲要实现非盟《2063年议程》确定的发展目标，每年基础设施投资缺口达1000亿美元。相信世界上没有一个国家可以独揽非洲发展融资需要。

⬆观众在第二届进博会南非国家馆参观(新华社 殷刚摄)

我们高兴地看到，今年，日本、俄罗斯等国分别同非洲国家举办了峰会，宣布了大量对非合作务实举措。印度、土耳其等新兴经济体对非合作也呈快速增长。

但遗憾的是，作为当今世界唯一的超级大国，美国对非洲投入虚多实少，提出的“新非洲战略”、“繁荣非洲倡议”等充满意识形态偏见和冷战思维，未见实质举措。更遗憾的是，美国自己对非不感兴趣，还不愿看到中非合作快速发展，担心中国支持非洲实现经济独立进而政治上摆脱他们控制，编造各种“假新闻”和谎言，指责中国在非洲制造债务危机、掠夺非洲资源，搞“新殖民主义”等，企图吓阻非洲同中国合作，阻止非洲实现自主可持续发展。

非洲实现自主可持续发展，需要更多国际合作伙伴。中国欢迎非洲合作伙伴多元化，欢迎域外国家加大对非投入，希望美国等发达国家信守承诺，拿出真金白银和切实举措，偿还对非洲欠下的历史债，履行应尽的国际义务，为非洲建设基础设施提供投融资支持，对非洲开放市场。

中国愿与国际社会一道,在充分尊重非洲意愿基础上积极开展涉非三方合作,打造国际社会共同支持非洲发展的“百花园”，共同促进非洲实现持久和平与自主可持续发展，为造福中非及世界各国人民和构建人类命运共同体做出新的更大贡献。

英文版

China-Africa Win-Win Cooperation
Boosts Africa’s Self-sustainable Development

By H.E. Ambassador Lin Songtian of China to South Africa    Translation|Chinese Embassy in South Africa

China
and Africa are good friends based on equality and mutual trust, good
partners for win-win cooperation and good brothers sharing weal and woe.
No matter how the international situations may change, China and Africa
are always a community with a shared future and interests.

China
and Africa have similar historical suffering and common development
missions. In the past, we fought side by side and supported each other
for national liberation and political independence. In a new era, China
and Africa are working together hands by hands to pursue win-win
cooperation for common development, embarking on our new journey towards
realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese
nation and the African dream of all-round development.

In
the face of the international financial crisis, China and Africa have
joined hands to tide over the difficulties. In the wake of the Wenchuan
and Yushu earthquakes and in times of the Ebola epidemic, China and
Africa have offered assistance and support to each other. Confronted
with unilateralism and bullying acts, China and Africa have stood
together to unequivocally and firmly uphold multilateralism and
international fairness and justice.

China
and Africa need each other, have respective advantages and can offer
opportunities to each other when conducting cooperation. Africa, a
continent with 54 countries and nearly 1.3 billion people, boasts
abundant natural resources, demographic dividend and huge development
potential. Development, revitalization and strength through unity have
become the consensus and shared aspiration of African countries. Major
breakthroughs have been made in building the African Free Trade Area and
advancing Africa’s economic integration. African countries have well
recognized that if Africa cannot be economically independent, it will be
politically controlled by others. Only by achieving self-sustainable
development, can Africa get rid of external interference and conflict,
shake off poverty and achieve lasting peace.

China,
as the world's second largest economy, enjoys development advantages in
capital, technology, equipment, market and human resources. More
importantly, China has the firm political commitment to sincerely
supporting Africa to achieve self-sustainable development. China is
ready to unreservedly share its development experiences and fruits with
African countries. China-Africa cooperation is facing a new historical
opportunity for seeking synergy in development strategies.

Since
the new century, in particular since China entered the new era,
China-Africa relations have entered a new stage of comprehensive and
rapid development, with unprecedented scope, depth and enthusiasm for
China-Africa cooperation. In 2013, President Xi Jinping chose Africa as
the destination for his first overseas trip after taking office. He put
forth the principles of sincerity, real results, affinity and good faith
and the values of friendship, justice and shared interests, shall be
followed in conducting China-Africa cooperation, so as to combine
China's development with Africa’s self-sustainable development to
achieve win-win cooperation for common development.

The
Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) has become a banner in
leading international cooperation with Africa. At the FOCAC Johannesburg
Summit in 2015 and the FOCAC Beijing Summit in 2018, President Xi
Jinping respectively announced the Ten Major Cooperation Plans and Eight
Major Initiatives, with an aim to support Africa to facilitate Afirca’s
industrialization and agricultural modernization, support African
countries’ efforts to break through the three development bottlenecks,
namely, backward infrastructure, lack of professional and skilled
persons, and short of capital sources, so as to fuel Africa’s
self-sustainable development.

The
above-mentioned major measures, which meet African countries’ urgent
need for industrialization and modernization, focus on supporting
Africa's efforts to strengthen infrastructure and human resources
development, aim to enhance Africa's capacity for self-sustainable
development, and have greatly promoted China-Africa win-win cooperation
for common development.

China
has become the most important and key partner for Africa to achieve
rapid development. Now over 30% of Africa's infrastructure projects and
80% of its telecommunication infrastructure are financed and built by
China. China has built and financed in Africa more than 10,000
kilometers of roads, 6,000 kilometers of railways, more than 150
stadiums, conference centers, and parliament buildings, over 200
schools, more than 80 power plants or stations and a lot of airports and
ports, benefiting almost all African countries.

Under
the framework of the FOCAC, the Chinese government provides 30,000 to
50,000 government scholarships to Africa every three years and trains no
less than 200,000 talents in practical technology and management in
various fields. At the same time, the Chinese local governments and
enterprises investing in Africa are encouraged to provide scholarships
and training opportunities to Africa. Now there are over 60,000 African
students studying in China.

China
has become the most important stakeholder in Africa's development.
China has been Africa's largest trading partner for 10 consecutive
years. In 2018, bilateral trade grew against the odds, reaching $204.2
billion, up by 20% year on year. China's investment in Africa has
increased from less than $1 billion in 2000 to more than$110 billion in
2018. The number of Chinese tourists traveling to Africa is increasing
rapidly and vice versa.

China-Africa
win-win cooperation has entered a new stage of transformation and
upgrading, featuring a shift from government aid-centered to investment
and financing cooperation-centered. The general commodity trade has been
upgraded to production capacity cooperation and processing trade, and
the simple project contracting upgraded to investment, construction,
operation and financial cooperation.

The
Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is becoming a new engine driving the
common development of China and Africa. Now Africa has become an
important direction for the Belt and Road cooperation. So far, 44
African countries and the African Union Commission have signed the
cooperation documents on the Belt and Road cooperation with China. China
and Africa, by following the principle of “Three Togethers”, namely,
planning together, building together and sharing together, have
effectively aligned the BRI with the AU Agenda 2063 and the respective
development strategies of African countries. China and Africa have been
committed to the “Five Connectivities” in policy, infrastructure, trade,
finance and people-to-people exchanges to promote high-quality mutually
beneficial cooperation with high standard and at a higher level.

China
is the most reliable friend and strong cooperative partner for Africa
to achieve its self-sustainable development. Since 2014, the aid,
investment and trade from the US, European countries and Japan to Africa
have all declined dramatically. On the contrary, driven by the FOCAC
and the BRI, China-Africa production capacity cooperation has been
developing rapidly. A large number of infrastructure projects including
railways, roads, bridges, ports, airports and communications have been
completed and conducting. Notable progress has been made in connectivity
in and among most countries, which has greatly accelerated Africa’s
industrialization.

Africa
has been rising rapidly, demonstrating a strong momentum of multi-speed
development. In 2018, 17 African countries registered a GDP growth rate
of more than 5%. Among them, Ethiopia, Kenya and some other Eastern
African countries registered a GDP growth rate of more than 6%.
According to IMF, in 2019, Africa's GDP growth rate is expected to
exceed the world average growth rate. More than half of the countries
with the fastest growing GDP rate are in Africa, and 19 African
countries will register a GDP growth rate of over 5%.

South
Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya and Nigeria are the bridgeheads and successful
examples of the Belt and Road Initiative synergizing with Africa's
development. South Africa is the first African country to sign the
intergovernmental MOU on the Belt and Road cooperation with China as
well as an important participant and beneficiary of the BRI. China has
been South Africa's largest trading partner for 10 consecutive years,
and has become a major source of investment and tourists for South
Africa. South Africa has been China's largest trading partner in Africa
for nine consecutive years. In 2018, bilateral trade between China and
South Africa reached $43.55 billion, up by 11.18% year on year and
accounting for nearly a quarter of the total trade volume between China
and Africa. Up to now, the Chinese companies have invested more than $25
billion in South Africa, creating more than 400,000 jobs for local
people.

China's
investment and financing in Ethiopia has reached nearly $30 billion,
which has helped Ethiopia build the Addis–Djibouti Railway and the
modern port of Djibouti. Several industrial parks and such connectivity
infrastructures as power grids, communications and roads have been built
along the railway and an economic development corridor has taken shape.
Ethiopia has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world
from once one of the poorest one. Over the past 10-plus years, it has
achieved a double-digit growth rate on average annually.

China
has supported Kenya in financing the construction of the
Mombasa-Nairobi Railway, which has greatly promoted Kenya's investment
and tourism development, boosted Kenya's GDP by 1.5%,cut the logistics
cost by up to 40%, and created 46,000 jobs for local people.

⬆Mombasa-Nairobi Railway

China
has provided Nigeria with tens of billions of dollars in financing. Two
railways and a large number of infrastructure projects including roads,
communications and power grids have been completed and put into use.
Nigeria has started to build its first communications university and the
feasibility study has been completed on a 1,000-kilometer-long coastal
railway, which will soon be put into construction. In recent years, with
the strong support of China, Nigeria has made remarkable achievements
in infrastructure construction, laying a solid foundation for its
sustainable socio-economic development.

China-Africa
cooperation complies with the trend of the times and meets the
aspirations of the two peoples. It has set a good example for
South-South cooperation and the international cooperation with Africa,
and has been welcomed by the Chinese and African people and universally
recognized by the international community.

We
are glad to see that China-Africa cooperation has not only promoted the
multi-speed economic growth and diversified development of African
countries, but also played an important balancing role in encouraging
the international community to attach greater importance to and increase
their input in cooperation with Africa.

To
help Africa achieve durable peace and self-sustainable development
serves the common interests of the people around the world and is also
the common responsibility of the international community. China's
cooperation with Africa always follows the principle of equality, mutual
benefit, openness and inclusiveness, and is committed to win-win
cooperation for common development. We will never exclude others, never
follow the old colonial path of the West to plunder Africa, and never
sacrifice Africa's ecological environment and long-term interests.

Following
the result-oriented approach, China has set up a follow-up committee
mechanism of the FOCAC, and taken a pioneering step to hold the
coordinators' meetings on the implementation of outcomes to ensure that
the consensus reached by the two sides can be timely aligned and
effectively implemented, and deliver benefits to the two peoples at an
early date.

Since
the FOCAC Beijing Summit, China has been in close touch with Africa on
the implementation of the Eight Major Initiatives. We have formulated
the sub-national implementation plans through consultation and specified
over 880 cooperation projects which will be implemented in the next
three years. In June this year, the coordinators' meeting on the
implementation of the outcomes of the Beijing Summit was successfully
held in Beijing. The relevant parties have reached important consensus
on the cooperation going forward, which will promote the high-quality
and sustainable development of China-Africa cooperation.

African
countries are facing three major development bottlenecks, namely,
backward infrastructure, lack of professional and skilled personnel, and
short of capital sources in achieving industrialization and
modernization. Therefore, they are in urgent need of substantial
investment and financing support from the international community. It is
estimated that to achieve the development goals set out in the AU
Agenda 2063, Africa is short of $100 to $130 billion on infrastructure
expenditure annually. I believe that no country in the world can finance
Africa's development alone.

⬆China Harbour Walvis Bay container terminal project

We
are glad to see that this year, Russia, Japan and some other countries
have held summits with African countries respectively and announced a
large number of practical measures for cooperation with Africa.
Cooperation between emerging economies such as India and Turkey with
Africa is also growing rapidly.

Unfortunately,
as the world's only superpower, the United States has only paid lip
services instead of taking concrete actions in its cooperation with
Africa. Its “New Africa Strategy” and “Prosper Africa” initiatives are
full of ideological bias and cold war mentality without concrete
measures. More regrettably, the United States not only has no intention
to Africa itself, but also is reluctant to see the rapid development of
China-Africa cooperation. The US is afraid that with China’s support,
Africa will achieve economic independence and then get out of their
control politically, so it has fabricated all sorts of “fake news” and
lies to accuse China of creating the debt crisis, debt traps in Africa,
plundering Africa’s resources, and pursuing “new colonialism” in an
attempt to deter Africa’s cooperation with China, with an evil intention
to prevent Africa from achieving self-sustainable development.

To
achieve self-sustainable development, Africa needs more international
partners. China welcomes the diversification of Africa's cooperative
partners and increased input from countries outside the region. It is
our sincere hope that the United States and other developed countries
can honor their commitments, offer real financial support and take
concrete measures to repay the historical debt they owe to Africa,
fulfill their due international obligations, provide investment and
financing support for Africa's infrastructure development, and open
their markets to Africa.

China
stands ready to work together with the international community to
conduct tripartite cooperation with Africa on the basis of fully
respecting Africa’s will so as to make the international community join
hands to help Africa achieve lasting peace and self-sustainable
development, and make greater contributions to building a community with
a shared future for mankind for the benefit of the Chinese and Africa
people and all peoples around the world.