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The article focuses on the cooperation of China and Africa to encourage development as of November 2006. African leaders gathered in Beijing with their Chinese counterparts for the first summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation and its Third Ministerial Conference. A series of events that speak of the China-Africa relations are cited. The said events include the release of China's first policy paper on Africa.

This article presents an interview Huang Zequan, executive chairman of the China Society for Research on African Issues in China, on the issue of promoting China-Africa relations. Zequan describes the background to the issuance of the China's African Policy paper. He also states the significance of the document and the future of China-Africa relations.

Reports that China and the United Nations Development Program has signed a project paper to set up the China-Africa Business Council. Role of the council; Support provided by the council for trade and investment activities in Cameroon, Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa and Tanzania.