Chinese President Xi Jinping announced a few days ago that China would provide the 5th-round emergency aid to African countries to fight against Ebola. On November 4, the Official of the Department of Foreign Assistance made a comment on the contents of this round of aid.
The official said that this is China’s 5th round of foreign assistance provided to African countries which were hit by Ebola including Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. This round of assistance is mainly applied to the following three aspects: 1. Help the three countries in the epidemic area with the tail-in work and the consolidation of the achievements of combating Ebola in the previous stage, in order to push the countries to terminate Ebola completely. China will continue to dispatch the virus detection team to Sierra Leone and send personnel in turn to the observation and treatment center of China-Sierra Leone Friendship Hospital. China will run the Ebola Treatment Center of Liberia, and transfer it to Liberia after the completion of the tasks. China will continue to provide necessary medical care materials and do a good job in local training for prevention and curing Ebola virus. China will actively support the work of the UN, WHO and the African Union and provide necessary financial supports to the above organizations. 2. Support the post-Ebola economic and social reconstruction of the countries in the epidemic area, and bolster the economic recovery and social development of the countries. According to the requirements of the three countries for economic and social reconstruction, China will attach importance to the assistance projects relating to people’s livelihood, capacity building and infrastructure, which will be implemented gradually after the consultation with the countries. 3. Support Africa to build the public health system, and strengthen the ability and level of African countries to combat major epidemic disease. China will make full use of the current assistance material of medical care in Africa, combine the “hard input” of infrastructure construction and the “soft input” of talents training, and promote the implementation of the China-Africa cooperation plan on public health, in order to help Africa enhance the ability of public health and explore the building mode of public health system which works for the reality of Africa.
Since the West Africa was hit by Ebola in March 2014, China has provided 4 rounds of emergency humanitarian aid valued RMB750 million to African countries including Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, which have been put into use timely. Together with the international community including the multilateral organizations like UN and WHO, China has made its contributions within its ability to combating Ebola, and has gained wide acclaim and high evaluation from African countries and the international community. The assistances fully reflected the sincerity, affinity and good faith of China’s cooperation concept with Africa,. At present, through the joint effort of the countries in the epidemic area and the international community, Ebola combating in the world has gained important achievements. The countries have stepped into a new stage of post-Ebola reconstruction.
