China-South Africa Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Relations:Achievements,Challenges and Prospects
South Africa is the first African country to establish a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Relations with China,and also the first African country to sign the Belt and Road Initiative with China.Since the establishment of China-South Africa Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in 2010,many aspects have been gaining positive progress:political equality and mutual trust have been continuously enhanced,economic cooperation have been rapidly developing,cultural and people-to-people communication have been gradually deepening,and cooperation and mutual benefits have been achieving in the multilateral relationships and international affair.At the same time,many problems in South Africa,which include but not limit to malaise of economic development,shortage of electric power supply,lack of social governance capacity,serious social public security,decrease of support rate in the African National Congress(ANC),bring some challenges to the steady growth of China-South Africa Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.Looking into the future,China and South Africa should continue to strengthen the exchange of governance experience;focus on helping South Africa to solve the current electric power crisis;innovate the way and approach of economic and trade cooperation,create and foster many new highlights in digital economy,green development,aerospace and vocational education,on the basis of deepening practical cooperation in trade,investment,infrastructure;continue to strengthen cultural and educational exchanges and cope with global challenges,in order to build a high-level community of a shared future between China and South Africa.
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