Friendly intercourse between China and Africa has well-established, especially in the lately half centuries. During the time of long-term anti-imperialism, colonialism, hegemonism and racism, the guarding of the national sovereignty and the dignity, maintains the developing country rights and interests, the struggle of promoting the world peace and development, the two countries supports mutually, cooperates mutually, and creates the deep friendship. For more than 50 years, both sides political relation has been closed, the high-level exchange visits are unceasing, the personnel intercourse is frequent, the trade relation development is rapid, various domains' cooperation is effective, and the international affairs' consultation and the coordination has strengthens day by day. China provided aid to the African country, and the African country has also given China many powerful supports."mutual benefit, sincere cordiality, mutual support and comprehensive cooperation"[1] is principle and prosperous power of Sino-African.Africa has 53 independent countries which occupied 1/3 of the United Nations member nation and 48 countries and areas have built the foreign relations with China. It is a noticeable important force in the international scene. Since the reform and open policy, China socialist modernization has achieved the achievement which attracts worldwide attention, and went out a socialist road with Chinese characteristics which suits our country to develop, the Chinese new generation has led the collective to summarize this path for peace development path. In China's peaceful rise process, Sino-African plays an important part, the African continent not only could provide the high speed development China resources, energy, and broad market for the Chinese manufacturing industry, but also plays an essential strength in China specially dealing with Western countries and so on US in the world politics pattern. The 21st century African relationship development whether further, directly influences China peaceful raise advancement and African continent full scale development and promotion, directly influence the change of the layout of world politics and economy.This article insisted that the dialectical materialism and historical materialism unify, used literature search, case analysis and historical analysis's method, widely collects the consult correlation data, through literature and example analytical study, summarizes the African relationship development process and the characteristic; Through the historical event review and summary, explores the opportunity and challenge of Sino-African in the 21st century, and places Sino-African and China's peaceful rise under historical and reality condition, respects the fact fully, analysis the develops of Sino-African, thus speeds up China's peaceful rise. The article is divided into five parts.The first part: African relationship development and characteristic in the beginning of the 21st century. This part through reviews the Central Africa more than 50 years friendly intercourse, politically in the equal mutual confidence, the economy cooperate and win-win, culture exchange and reflects to carry on the elaboration mutually to the 21st century African relationship present situation. From"head diplomacy is the foundation, equal idea is the soul, mutual benefit win-win is the essence, and the standard mechanism is guaranteed"to carry on the summary and the summary to the present stage African relationship's characteristic, makes every effort to have a good assurance from the overall situation to Sino-African development.The second part: opportunity and challenge of Sino-African development. The Central Africa traditional friendship is the foundation of Sino-African development, the Central Africa trade operations in the bilateral relations status is important day by day, simultaneously the African country yearned for that China's development model,"eastward viewing"becomes an Africa's important option, Central Africa in the science and technology, culture and health is close day by day, the Africa cooperation forum's establishment causes the African relationship development institution, all these become opportunity of Sino-African thorough development in new century. From 21st century Africa country the demands of foreign benefit tends the multiplication, the influence of the negative Western factor as well as Chinese and the Western country to African relationship's influence, the economics and trade development produces increases day by day in the non-conflicts of interest discussed the African relationship development receives challenge, thus causes the Sino-African to be clearer.The third part: the influence of Sino-African Relationship on China's Peaceful Rise. Sino-African Relationship has enhanced the overall national power of China, and the Sino-African cooperation Forum has promoted the soft power of China, thus providing benefit to the growth of China's overall national power; the Sino-Africa economic interaction and the newly arisen Sino-African economic and trade relationship is beneficial to the sustained rapid and sound development of the economy of China; its restriction on Taiwan promotes the unification of China; Sino-Africa Relationship as a model of international diplomacy, and the establishment of the democratization of international relations and the new world order makes China make great contribution to world peace and development.The fourth part: the establishment of good Sino-African Relationship will be beneficial to China's Peaceful Rise. The theory of Sino-Africa harmonious world and the sustainable development is the foundation and the guarantee for China's Peaceful Rise; Sino-African Relationship, which could be described as independence, widespread common ground, equality and mutual benefit, pragmatic construction, is the key point of China's Peaceful Rise; the establishment and the development of the new cooperative partnership, the exploration of the new form of Sino-African Relationship development, facing and searching the solution for the problems of Sino-Africa Relationship is the propulsion of China's Peaceful Rise.In a word, China's Peaceful Rise becomes the inevitable choice of the Chinese Nation in 21st century, Sino-African Relationship deeply affects China's Peaceful Rise, improving the aid policy to Africa actively, unfolding the diplomatic style of China, strengthening the self-discipline and the mechanism of negotiation, insisting on non-particularism, strengthening the research on Africa, placing the Sino-African relationship development on an important strategic position, thus finally achieving China's Peaceful Rise and soar of African continent. |