Nov. 23 (US time) On the sidelines of the 27th China-US Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade, with the witness of Chinese Premier Wang Yang and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman, Deputy China International Trade Representative Zhang Xiangchen, Deputy Director of National Health and Family Planning Commission Wang Hesheng and Head of U.S. Agency for International Development Smith, Assistant Minister of United States Department of Health and Human Services and Assistant Drector of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention jointly signed a MOU on Supporting African Disease Prevention and Control Center among Chinese Ministry of Commerce, National Health and Family Planning Commission, and U.S. Agency for International Development, United States Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

African Disease Prevention and Control Center is an important project that the African Union and African countries have jointly built to promote African public health system construction in the period of post-Ebola, significant to the overall improvement of African public health and safety. US and China will jointly support African disease control center construction, in the principles of “Africa proposes, Africa agrees and Africa leads” under the framework of the MOU, help to strengthen African public health ability and contribute to Africa’s public health development and improve African people’s well being.