导读
南非希望向中国出口更多农产品，也希望与中国加大力度进行数字能力建设，探索更多的数字领域合作机遇。目前南非对华出口产品集中在制造业，南非希望未来对华出口向价值链中高端倾斜
●全球合作应对疫情
●制定经济复苏计划 延续国家战略
●南中多领域合作潜力可观
●共同推进中非关系提质升级
南非共和国始终坚信合作才是实现国内外发展目标的正道。包括西里尔·拉马福萨总统在内的历任南非总统都非常重视与政府、劳工、商界、宗教和社区领袖进行广泛商讨，深入交换意见，凝聚合力实现南非的发展目标。
全球合作应对疫情
面对全球性挑战，特别是在应对新冠肺炎疫情的问题上，南非利用其2020年非盟轮值主席的身份与世卫组织保持互动，并加入了世卫组织与流行病防范创新联盟共同牵头成立的新冠肺炎疫苗实施计划，以确保疫苗产品是安全有效的，并能在发达国家和发展中国家实现公平分配、快速分配，上述平台也获得了中国领导人的支持。
中国为全球抗疫做出了重要贡献，中国不仅成功实现本国疫情全面防控，还全力支持多家大型医药公司研制新冠肺炎疫苗，国产新冠疫苗现已在中国国内大范围推广应用。当非洲受到疫情冲击时，中国派遣医疗专家组飞往非洲多个国家，提供医疗物资和医疗援助，帮助非洲国家政府开展疫情防控工作。中国与至少16个国家开展合作，以测试中国现有的五种新冠疫苗的有效性。中国对世界的贡献表明，在全球性危机面前，各国团结一心、共克时艰，定能汇聚成排山倒海的磅礴力量。
⬆ 南非约翰内斯堡市中心
制定经济复苏计划 延续国家战略
南非经济受到疫情较大冲击，企业倒闭导致两百多万人失业。去年，西里尔·拉马福萨总统启动了《经济重建和恢复计划》以应对新冠肺炎疫情带来的经济方面的挑战。政府制定的应急计划分为三个阶段。首先，政府启动医疗应急机制；其次，政府为最脆弱群体提供社会和经济纾困支持，支持企业平稳过渡，保障人民就业问题；目前，随着经济活动逐步回归正常化和疫苗的广泛推广，人民的生命安全和身体健康得到保障，经济复苏成为政府工作的重点。政府、医疗救援机构和企业界戮力合作，助力新冠疫苗的采购、资助、分配，跨界合作能够更好地为政府建言献策，帮助政府制定出最佳的经济复苏计划，从而提振南非人民成功抗疫的信心。
南非《经济重建与复苏计划》通过实施适当的改革和取消监管壁垒，降低成本，提高经济运行效率，保证能源供应安全，开放数字基础设施，释放经济发展潜能。南非将致力于实施《2030年国家发展规划》，延续疫情前的国家战略规划。
南非正大力发展科学技术，积极推进农业改革，加强制造业和基础设施建设，改善交通网络，加快数字网络升级换代，保障能源供应，大力开发可再生能源，振兴旅游业。主要目标在于创造更多就业岗位，特别是在高附加值加工制造业领域。
南非有较为完善的产业结构和不断壮大的新兴市场，多元化的产业结构能带来很多投资机遇。南非欢迎外国投资商来南投资，南政府为其提供政策支持，以便帮助投资商获取信息并制定相关法规保护投资商的合法权益。外国投资商在南投资可以自主选择投资类型，自主把控投资过程中的参与度。
南非是一个贸易大国，每年进出口产品价值数十亿美元，南非基础设施健全，经济运行稳定性较强，是非洲最具活力、最繁荣的市场之一。
南中多领域合作潜力可观
南中关系覆盖政治、经济和人文交流等多个领域。中国领导人在中南及中非关系问题上非常具有战略前瞻性。南非认为，两国良好的双边关系得益于南中高层在共同关切的重要问题上长期保持密切联系。
中国是南非最大的外商直接投资来源国，两国交往包括高层互访和国际论坛期间的会面，两国在许多议题上都存在共同利益。中国政府在推动南中关系乃至中非关系发展方面具有前瞻性思考。
目前，有上百家中国企业将非洲市场总部设立在南非。现阶段南非对华出口的产品和服务集中在采矿、金融、信息通讯技术、化工和物流业，未来南非希望加强对华出口多元化。南非希望未来能向中国出口更多农产品，也希望与中国加大力度进行数字能力建设，探索更多的数字领域合作机遇。目前南非对华出口产品集中在制造业，南非希望未来对华出口向价值链中高端倾斜。南非和中国间的经贸合作还有很大的提升空间。
共同推进中非关系提质升级
中方始终坚信，中非合作在许多领域都有提升空间，中方表示愿加强与非盟《2063年议程》的政策对接，这些表态都令南非备受鼓舞。中非应加强工业能力建设合作，携手发展非洲本土制造业，加强区域互联合作，进一步探索中非自贸合作，加强粮食生产、存储和运输方面的合作，加强数字合作，抓住信息通讯技术领域发展机遇、共建数字非洲，加强环境合作、推动中非可持续发展，加强军事安全合作、推动非洲热点问题政治解决。
中国政府在对非贸易往来中始终坚持自由贸易原则，非洲人口达12亿，国民生产总值达2.5万亿美元，非洲机会众多，中非合作前景广阔。在2018年中非合作论坛北京峰会期间，中国领导人提出了“八大行动”倡议，意在加强中非互惠合作，为中非经济、政治和安全合作注入新动力。在今年即将在塞内加尔召开的中非合作论坛第八届部长级会议上，中非合作论坛各成员国将汇报“八大行动”倡议的实施情况与进展，南非代表团将与会。南非认为，此次部长级会议定将取得丰硕成果，中非关系定会提质升级，迈向更高的台阶！
编辑 | 张 梅
翻译 | 齐晓彤
设计 | 大 米
South
Africa is a country that is deeply committed to the idea of cooperation
in the attainment of its domestic and global goals. All heads of State,
former and including the current President, His Excellency President
Cyril Ramaphosa have always engaged social partners – government,
labour, business, religious leaders and community organisations –
through intensive and detailed consultations to deliver on South
Africa’s goals.
Similarly,
in the international arena, particularly in the era of the covid-19
pandemic, South Africa utilized its chairship of the African Union in
2020 to engage the World Health Organisation (WHO) and joined the
COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) facility, an effort led by the
WHO and the global Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations
(CEPI) to make sure that any products are proven to be safe and
effective and quickly reach rich and poor countries alike. The
abovementioned platforms have also been endorsed by President Xi
Jinping. China has played a leading role in not only comprehensively
managing the virus in the country but having no less than four major
pharmaceuticals developing the science behind the vaccine that has
already been administered to millions of specified categories in China.
When the African Continent was hit by the virus, China sent medical
teams and supplies to different countries on the Continent, to assist in
curbing the spread of the virus. Furthermore, China cooperated with at
least 16 countries in the testing of the efficacy of five candidate
vaccines, this is illustrative of what is possible when we act together
as a family of nations to achieve and even overcome challenges faced in
the global arena.
South
Africa’s economy, like other economies, has contracted sharply in the
wake of the pandemic which has led to the shedding of more than 2
million jobs and the closure of several businesses. President Cyril
Ramaphosa launched the Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan last
year to respond to the challenge imposed by covid-19 on the economy. The
response was three-pronged – firstly, the government developed a robust
health response, secondly, social and economic relief was provided for
the most vulnerable people and businesses were supported with the aim of
keeping people employed and currently, economic recovery is the main
focus as vaccinations are being rolled out in order to ensure safety for
all citizens as economic activities begin to normalize. An inclusive
partnership has been formed between government, medical schemes and the
private sector to support the acquisition, funding and distribution of
vaccines which gives us hope that such cohesive intersectional
cooperation has allowed government to develop the best course of action
to guide South Africa past the pandemic.
Importantly,
the South African Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan builds on
the common ground established over the last few months which will focus
on unleashing the potential of our economy by implementing necessary
reforms and removing regulatory barriers that increase costs and create
inefficiencies in the economy, securing our energy supply, and freeing
up digital infrastructure. South Africa remains committed to the vision
2030 espoused in the National Development Plan and the programme that
was outlined at the beginning of the 6th democratic administration prior
to the outbreak of the pandemic.
South
Africa is also on a path to promote science and technology; reform the
agricultural sector; increase manufacturing and infrastructure
development; improve transport networks; upgrade digital networks;
ensure the supply of energy – including renewables and reviving the
tourism economy. The key aim is to stimulate job creation and move them
up the value chain in terms of manufacturing and processing. There are
more than a hundred Chinese companies who are headquartered or with
major operations in South Africa for the African market. This is
important for our country, similarly, South Africa would like to
increase the number of sectors in which it exports its goods in China.
Currently, there are companies from the mining, finance, ICT, chemicals
and logistics. Ideally, there would be a larger number of agricultural
produce, capacity building or opportunities to collaborate in the
digital space; Chinese consumers of South African manufactured goods
that could evolve into secondary and tertiary industries. South Africa
and China have not yet fully explored the potential for investment and
trade between each other. Our country has well developed economic
infrastructure and a growing emerging market. The investment potential
lies in the diversity of sectors and industries. South Africa is very
keen on attracting foreign investors this is supported by policies
created and regulations enacted to ensure that potential investors can
access the information they require and that foreign investors are
protected. South Africa also offers investors flexibility in the types
of investments they want to make and the level of involvement during the
investment process. South Africa is also a major trading nation,
exporting and importing billions worth of goods every year with vast
infrastructure to ensure operational fluidity and is one of many dynamic
and thriving African markets.
On
a bilateral level, South Africa’s ties with China are comprehensive and
cover many areas of cooperation including political economic, and
people-to-people exchanges. South Africa attributes the good relations
to sustained communication at the highest level on key issues of
interest. As South Africa’s biggest investor, there are many areas in
which the two countries find common ground, with a partnership that
involves exchanges at high-level visits and meetings on the margins of
several multilateral fora. The Chinese leadership under President Xi is
also forward thinking about its relationship with not only South Africa
but the African continent as a whole.
South
Africa is encouraged by the areas where China believes Africa-China
cooperation can be strengthened, many of which are aligned with Agenda
2063 – the development agenda that guides the African Union’s policy
making framework. The areas of cooperation include promoting industrial
capacity cooperation and more locally based manufacturing of goods;
increasing cooperation with Africa on regional connectivity, and explore
free trade cooperation with Africa; enhancing agriculture cooperation
with Africa, including on food production, storage and transportation;
promote digital cooperation with Africa and seize opportunities in the
field of ICT to build a digital Africa; promoting environmental
cooperation with Africa in pursuit of sustainable development; and
promoting military and security cooperation with Africa, and promote
political settlement of hot spot areas on the continent.
With
regard to the Forum on China–Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), President Xi
committed China to shared fair trade with the African continent. With a
population 1.2 billion and a combined gross domestic product of US$2.5
trillion Africa has opportunities in abundance for China and Africa
alike. During the 2018 FOCAC Summit, President Xi Jinping proposed the
Eight Initiatives aimed at pursuing a win-win strategy for giving new
impetus to economic, political and security collaboration between China
and Africa. At the FOCAC Summit due to be held later this year in
Senegal, FOCAC members will report on the achievements and progress of
the Eight Initiatives. South Africa will participate and we know that
the summit will be fruitful and build on Africa-China relations.
Editor | Zhang Mei
Design | Demi