4.5.6 The AU and the China National Space Administration will jointly explore and
release the White Paper on China-Africa Space Cooperation to identify key areas and
directions for cooperation. China will use space technology to enhance cooperation with
African countries in such areas as scientific and technological development, poverty and
hunger elimination, promotion of social security, disaster prevention and relief, climate
change, and eco-environmental protection.
4.5.7 The two sides will actively work for the establishment of a sub-forum on ChinaAfrica space cooperation under the FOCAC framework. Both sides will focus on
supporting projects concerning satellite remote sensing, communications satellite and
space city building, in an effort to drive the development of the space industry of African
countries. China will set up centers for China-Africa cooperation on satellite remote
sensing application.
4.5.8 China will train specialized aerospace professionals for African countries, and
promote aerospace capacity building of African countries. The two sides will fully
leverage the role of the UN-affiliated Regional Centers for Space Science and
Technology Education in China, Nigeria and Morocco, as well as African Union Space
Agency headquartered in Egypt and make good use of the Belt and Road Aerospace
Innovation Alliance to promote exchanges and cooperation between Chinese and African
universities, work to build a regional development center of the Belt and Road Aerospace
Innovation Alliance in Africa, and contribute to the training and education of aerospace
professionals in Africa.
4.5.9 The two sides support the CubeSat Middle School Student Science Project. The
two sides will set up a China-Africa youth space alliance as a platform for space
exchanges between Chinese and African middle school students, and explore new
ways of science popularization in China-Africa space cooperation, so as to lay the
foundation for realizing the development vision of emerging space countries in Africa.
4.5.10 The two sides will enhance communication and cooperation on platforms such as
the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space to jointly promote international
space cooperation and global space governance that are fair and reasonable and take
into account the special needs of developing countries.
4.5.11 The two sides acknowledge that nuclear technologies play an important role in
economic and social development. China will continue to leverage the Chinese
Government Atomic Energy Scholarship Program and existing cooperation platforms
between the two sides to continue to deepen mutually beneficial cooperation between
China and Africa in such areas as nuclear science research, nuclear personnel training,
nuclear technology application and nuclear power project development, and jointly tackle
challenges including climate change, energy supply, food security, health, and protection
of water resources.
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