Timetable
April: The Chinese government announced to send disease prevention and control materials worth 4 million yuan to Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea-Bissau.
Aug 7: The Chinese government decided to send 30 million yuan in emergent humanitarian aid to West African countries, including Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Aug 8: The World Health Organization announced the Ebola epidemic in West Africa as an emergent public health event, garnering international attention.
Aug 11: The Chinese government sent the first public health expert teams to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Aug 16: The Chinese government sent clinical and public health expert teams to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Sept 12: The Chinese government decided to offer the third round of emergency humanitarian aid worth 200 million yuan to African countries and international organizations.
Sept 16: The Chinese government sent a CDC mobile lab testing team with 59 members to Sierra Leone and carried out lab screening and observation work at the China-Sierra Leone Friendship Hospital, funded by the Chinese government.
Sept 24: The Chinese government delivered a ‘third-level’ mobile biosafety lab to Sierra Leone by air.
Sept 26: China-Sierra Leone Friendship Hospital’s testing and observation center inauguration ceremony was held.
Oct 24: President Xi Jinping announced that China had offered a fourth round of emergency aid worth 500 million yuan to African countries to help combat Ebola.
Nov 9: The Chinese government sent the first public health training expert teams to Sierra Leone.
Nov 14: Feng Zijian, deputy director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, travelled to Liberia as senior consultant of United Nations Integrated Mission.
Nov 14: Senior commissioners of the Chinese government, tasked with helping Africa fight the epidemic, went to Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea to work for a month.
Nov 25: Cui Li, vice minister of the NHFPC, led a senior delegation of the Chinese government to attend the inauguration ceremony of Liberia’s treatment center, funded by China.
December: Chinese public health training expert teams went to help Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Benin, Liberia, Senegal, Ghana and Togo.
He Liehui, general representative of the Djibouti National Investment Promotion Agency, signed a strategic cooperative agreement with Zhang Jianxin, president of the Zhejiang Investment and Finance Association on Sept 29.
