Only through solidarity and cooperation can mankind move forward together.  Erastas Mwencha is a former Vice Chairman of the African Union Commission and a member of the Advisory Committee of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation.  

No matter how the international situation changes, China has always stood with Africa, and China and Africa have always been a community with a shared future. Standing at a new historical starting point, both China and Africa are embracing new and important opportunities. Under the guidance and impetus of the heads of state's diplomacy, the building of a China-Africa community with a shared future in the new era will surely score new historic achievements and make greater contribution to the modernization, prosperity and progress of mankind. Editor/Xu Shengpeng