China's new plan for Africa at a glance

Chinese President Xi Jinping, at the Forum on China Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) summit in December last year announced a new era of China's relations with the continent built on win-win cooperation and common development.

He promised that the relations would henceforth be based on five major pillars of political equality, mutual trust, mutual benefit, cultural exchange and solidarity in international affairs.

Over the next three years, China will implement large-scale projects in 10 strategic areas in Africa, including: industrialization, agricultural modernization, infrastructure, financing, green development, trade band investment, poverty reduction, public health and culture.

Below is a breakdown of some of the planned projects that China will seek to accomplish jointly with African states: 

• $60b funding support ($6b grant and zero interest loans, $35b loans on favourable terms, $5b China-Africa Development Fund, Special loan for development of African SMEs, 10b China-Africa Fund for Production).

• $60m grant to support African Standby Force and continue participating in peacekeeping missions

• Train 200,000 technical personnel and 40,000 in China

• Carry out agricultural projects in 100 African villages to raise rural living standards

• Carry out 50 aid for trade programmes in Africa in trade and investment

• Launch 100 projects in green, low carbon development

• Cancel outstanding debt (bilateral government zero interest loans of least developed African countries that mature at the end of 2015)

• Carry out 200 'Happy Life' projects to reduce poverty targeting women and children

• Help Africa establish African Center for Disease Control (twin China and African hospitals)

• Build five cultural centres and provide satellite TV reception to 10,000 African villages

• 2,000 education opportunities (diploma, degree) and 30,000 scholarships

• Sponsor visits by 200 African scholars and study trips by 500 young Africans in China

• Train 1,000 media professionals from Africa