In Wolf Warriors 2, the description of China-Africa relations also aroused the interest of the audience. There are many lines in the film, such as "Don't kill China people" and "They are from China". So, in real life, is China-Africa relations that friendly?
The present situation of China-Africa relations
economic and trade cooperation
On August 3, the Ministry of Commerce held a regular press conference on the recent key work in the business field. Gao Feng, spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce, introduced at the meeting that in the first half of 20 17, the African economy showed obvious signs of recovery. The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa predicts that Africa's economy will grow by 3.2% in 20 17, an increase of 1.7 percentage points over the previous year.
According to data released by the Ministry of Commerce on the 3rd, the trade volume between China and Africa reached US$ 85.3 billion in the first half of this year, up by 19% year-on-year, reversing the negative growth since 20 15 years. Among them, imports increased by 46% to US$ 38.4 billion, and exports increased by 3% to US$ 47 billion.
In addition, China's vehicle exports to Africa have also increased substantially, with some categories increasing by more than 200% year-on-year. Gao Feng, spokesman of the Ministry of Commerce, said that in the first half of this year, China's exports of ships, rolling stock and aerospace equipment to Africa increased by 200%, 16 1% and 252% respectively. The export of mechanical and electrical products, textile products and electronic technology products has also maintained varying degrees of growth.
Gao Feng also said that 20 17 is a crucial year for the implementation of the "Ten Major Cooperation Plans" between China and Africa, and the Ministry of Commerce will continue to focus on the implementation of the "Ten Major Cooperation Plans", do a good job in economic and trade work with Africa, and promote new development, new breakthroughs and new promotion of China-Africa economic and trade cooperation with more and greater cooperation results.
It is understood that the "Ten Cooperation Plans" between China and Africa were put forward at the opening ceremony of the Johannesburg Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation on February 4, 20 15.
According to the news, China and Africa have always had the same fate. In order to promote the construction of China-Africa comprehensive strategic partnership, China is willing to focus on implementing the "Ten Cooperation Plans" for Africa in the next three years. At the same time, in order to ensure the smooth implementation of the "Ten Cooperation Plans", China decided to provide a total of 60 billion US dollars in financial support.
It is reported that China-Africa "Top Ten Cooperation Plans" are: China-Africa Industrialization Cooperation Plan, China-Africa Agricultural Modernization Cooperation Plan, China-Africa Infrastructure Cooperation Plan, China-Africa Financial Cooperation Plan, China-Africa Green Development Cooperation Plan, China-Africa Trade and Investment Facilitation Cooperation Plan, China-Africa Poverty Alleviation and Benefiting People Cooperation Plan, China-Africa Public Health Cooperation Plan, China-Africa Humanities Cooperation Plan and China-Africa Peace and Security Cooperation Plan.
The total financial support provided by China is 60 billion US dollars, including: providing 5 billion US dollars of free aid and interest-free loans; Provide $35 billion in preferential loans and export credit lines to improve the preferential degree of preferential loans; Increase capital by 5 billion US dollars each for special loans for the development of small and medium-sized enterprises in china-africa development fund and Africa; The first batch of "China-Africa Capacity Cooperation Fund" was established with a capital of 654.38+0 billion US dollars.
investment projects
According to the data released by the Ministry of Commerce, in the first half of this year, the non-financial direct investment flow of China enterprises in Africa was $654.38+0.6 billion, up by 22% year-on-year, among which the investment in Ethiopia, Zambia, Kenya, Djibouti and other countries exceeded $654.38+0 billion.
In July this year, Ethiopian Minister of Transport Ahmed Sid publicly stated that the electrified railway in Ji Ya, which was built by China enterprises, will start commercial operation from June 5 to 10 this year.
Ji Ya Railway starts from Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, in the west and ends at Djibouti Port in the east. It is about 750 kilometers long. It is built according to the standard of China secondary electrified railway, with a design speed of1.20km/h and a total investment of about USD 4 billion (including the purchase of rolling stock). This is the first transnational electrified railway in Africa built with China railway technical standards and China equipment. Organized by China Railway and China Railway Construction, it is the first "going out" railway in the whole industry chain built by China enterprises overseas.
In addition, the Mombasa-Nairobi railway was officially completed and opened to traffic in May. It is an international trunk railway built with China standard, China technology, China equipment manufacturing and China management experience. The uranium mine developed by China enterprises in Namibia will produce the first barrel of uranium and will become the second largest uranium mine in the world; The Adama Equipment Manufacturing Industrial Park jointly built by Hunan Province and Ethiopia is ready to start construction, covering an area of 1.22 square kilometers, and a number of leading domestic enterprises plan to invest in the park.
It is understood that in Africa, China has built more than 5,000 kilometers of railways and highways for the aid and financing of African countries, and has also trained more than 1.6 million talents. Russian Tass news agency said that China's "railway diplomacy" made a new breakthrough in Africa.
Peacekeeping operations/operations
1In April 1990, China began to participate in United Nations peacekeeping operations. At present, there are nearly 3,000 peacekeepers in China in the global 16 peacekeeping operation of the United Nations.
In recent years, peacekeeping missions have been the most frequent in Africa. Since 20 12, China has sent peacekeeping engineering units and medical units to South Sudan, and has rotated 15 batches so far, which has made outstanding contributions to the infrastructure construction and medical level recovery in South Sudan and achieved the feat of building 80 kilometers of roads in 25 days.
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