New platforms built for cooperation

China has so far signed agreements with five African countries, including South Africa and Ethiopia, and since 2015 it has helped train over 900 Africans through workshops on urban environmental management and water pollution control, according to Huang Runqiu, minister of ecology and environment.

China has also signed 14 deals on tackling climate change with 13 African nations since 2011, and has donated a large amount of equipment to help countries in the continent cope with climate change, including more than 10,000 sets of solar photovoltaic power generation equipment and launching a small satellite.

In 2018, Namibia and China signed an agreement on the establishment of the Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Receiving Station through the Chinese grant funding system.

The station will enable Namibia to obtain satellite remote sensing data covering its land and sea territory to conduct research on domestic natural resources, agriculture, disaster mitigation and addressing climate change, etc.

The station includes antenna feed subsystem, channel subsystem, data recording and transmission subsystem and control subsystem. Besides, China will also provide technical training to 10 local engineers and send experts to Namibia for joint research and development.

In November last year, the China-Africa Environmental Cooperation Center was launched to increase China's collaboration with African nations on environmental issues.