Forum on China-Africa Cooperation
At the joint proposing of China and Africa, the first ministerial meeting of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) was held in Beijing in October 2000, inaugurating the forum. The forum's 55 members are China, the 53 African countries that have established diplomatic relations with China, and the African Union Commission. To date, three summits (the Beijing Summit in November 2006, the Johannesburg Summit in December 2015, and the Beijing Summit in September 2018) and seven ministerial meetings have convened. They have yielded rich results by formulating a series of important programmatic cooperation documents, promoting the implementation of a series of major measures to support Africa's development, and deepening friendly and mutually beneficial China-Africa cooperation.
At the Beijing Summit in 2018, President Xi comprehensively expounded on sincerity, real results, amity and good faith, and the principles of pursuing the greater good and shared interests. The summit clarified the heart of building a closer China-Africa community of shared future and charted a development direction and path. It also adopted eight major initiatives covering the fields of industrial promotion, infrastructure connectivity, trade facilitation, green development, capacity building, healthcare, people-to-people exchange, and peace and security.
After more than 20 years of development, the forum has become an important platform for China-Africa dialogue, an effective mechanism for practical cooperation, and a bellwether for international cooperation with Africa in the new era. Largely driven by the forum, high-level interaction between China and Africa has become increasingly frequent, and political mutual trust has continued to deepen. China-Africa relations have been elevated from "a new type of partnership," to "a new type of strategic partnership" and then to "a China-Africa comprehensive strategic and cooperative partnership."
中非合作論壇
在中非雙方共同倡議下，中非合作論壇首屆部長級會議于2000年10月在北京召開，中非合作論壇正式成立。論壇成員包括中國、53個同中國建交的非洲國家、非洲聯盟委員會共55個成員。論壇迄今已舉行3次峰會（2006年11月北京峰會、2015年12月約翰內斯堡峰會、2018年9月北京峰會）、7屆部長級會議，制定了一系列重要的綱領性合作文件，推動實施了一系列支持非洲發展、深化中非友好互利合作的重大舉措，取得豐碩成果。
習近平在2018年中非合作論壇北京峰會上全面闡述了“真、實、親、誠”理念和正確義利觀，明確了構建更加緊密的中非命運共同體的時代內涵、發展方向和前進路徑， 并提出了重點實施產業促進、設施聯通、貿易便利、綠色發展、能力建設、健康衛生、人文交流、和平安全“八大行動”。
經過20多年的發展，論壇已成為中非開展集體對話的重要平臺和務實合作的有效機制，成為新時代引領國際對非合作的一面旗幟。在中非合作論壇引領下，中非高層互動日益頻繁，政治互信持續深化，中非關系完成了“新型伙伴關系”“新型戰略伙伴關系”“全面戰略合作伙伴關系”三級跳。
