China Assists Africa In Its Fight Against The Ebola Epidemic

For a long time,China-Africa relations have been one of the cornerstones of China's diplomacy.China and Africa have profound traditional friendship and good cooperative relationship.They support and cooperate with each other to promote economic and social development of both sides.Since 1963,China has begun to provide medical and health assistance to African countries,opening the history of China-Africa health cooperation.For more than half a century,China-Africa health cooperation,as an important part of China-Africa relations,has made great contributions to improving the medical and health conditions of African countries,raising the international status and the soft power of China.It has greatly promoted the development of China-Africa relations and has become a model for South-South cooperation.With the deepening of globalization,non-traditional security issues have gradually become a hot topic in international relations.In the field of health,the frequency of global public health crisis is increasing,and the impact and destructiveness of it should not be underestimated.In 2014,the large-scale Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa has posed a severe challenge to the global health system,exposing many problems in global health management,which has aroused people's attention to global public health.In view of this epidemic situation,China has invested a lot of manpower and material resources to help Africa countries against Ebola,which has played a great role in the prevention and control of the epidemic.The development trend of China-Africa health cooperation in the new era has also been shown more clearly through the aid action.China's anti-Ebola action is an important landmark event in the development of China-Africa health cooperation.In the perspective of China-Africa health cooperation,study of anti-Ebola action,combined with the relevant international relations theory,can more clearly and accurately grasp the development trend of China-Africa health cooperation.Africa has always been the most serious continent of disease.Backward medical and health conditions and scarce medical resources have provided favorable conditions for the breeding and dissemination of all kinds of infectious diseases.For African countries,strengthening China-Africa health cooperation is of great significance for alleviating local diseases and health problems and promoting economic and social development.For China and the international community,the public health problems in the era of globalization are no longer limited to a certain country or region.How to integrate the China-Africa health cooperation into the global health management system and how to incorporate it into the Chinese foreign strategic framework have become important issues for the stability and development of China's diplomacy and the international community.In the era of global health governance,China-Africa health cooperation is facing both opportunities and challenge.By combing the history of China-Africa medical health cooperation,showing the process of China's anti-Ebola action,analyzing the characteristics,influence and significance of it,we can further explains the development trend and motivation of the China-Africa health cooperation,which will help us to study how to combine China-Africa health cooperation better in the mechanism of China's participation in global health governance.The study of China-Africa health cooperation will also help us better grasp the overall China-Africa relations.