After The Establishment Of Diplomatic Relations Between China And South Africa Relations

China and South Africa established diplomatic relations in January 1, 1998,which indicated the Sino-South Africa relations have entered a new historical era. After ten years of rapid development, the Sino-South Africa relations underwent a partnership to a strategic partnership and the gradual deepening of the process. Recalling the development course of bilateral relations can be clearly seen: the bilateral political exchang,international cooperation and strategic mutual trust has become noticeably stronger; the complementary and mutually beneficial trade and economic cooperation scale continues to expand, rising standards of the growing expansion of space; cooperation in other areas continue to develop in depth. There are many reasons that the Sino-South Africa relations going fast. The economics and trade cooperation is power fountainhead of the bilateral relations development while the political relation is the huge propelling force and the resources strategic cooperation becomes another important promotion factor. The overall characteristic of the Sino-South Africa relations is the strategic partnership is established and promoted on the foundation of that the common attribution of emerging developing countries and undertaken the mission together which Asia and Africa revives. Certainly, the Sino-South Africa relations also has some problems in the prompting process.China and South Africa hold great expectations on the prospect and potentiality of the bilateral relation development in the future,and are making preparations actively for the challenges ahead.