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Wen put forward eight measures to promote China-Africa cooperation according to Xinhua news China-Africa Cooperation Forum Fourth Ministerial Conference opened in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, 8th.　　Premier Wen Jiabao attended the opening ceremony and made a speech on eight measures to promote China-Africa cooperation in an all-round way, saying that Chinese support and assistance to Africa have not and will never attach any political conditions in the past. First, the initiative to establish a Sino-African Partnership for Climate Change, the holding of regular high-level consultations, in the satellite meteorological monitoring, new energy development and utilization, desertification control, urban ring ◇ Protection and other areas to strengthen cooperation.　　China has decided to l00 a clean energy project for Africa's solar, biogas and hydro-power projects.　　Second, to strengthen scientific and technological cooperation, the initiative launched the "China-Africa Science and Technology Partnership Program", the implementation of the L00-China Joint Science and Technology research demonstration project to receive l00, an African postdoctoral scholar to carry out scientific research work and to provide funding for its repatriation service. Iii. increase Africa's financing capacity by providing L00 billion-dollar concessional loans to African countries and supporting Chinese financial institutions in setting up special loans for SME development in Africa.　　The Heavily indebted poor countries and least developed countries that have established diplomatic relations with China are exempt from the government interest-free loan debt due to the end of 2009.　　Iv. expanding the market for non-products and progressively granting zero-tariff treatment to 95% of the least developed countries that have established diplomatic ties with China, 20l0 60% of the products in the first year.　　V. To further strengthen agricultural cooperation by increasing China's agricultural demonstration centres in African countries to 20, sending 50 agricultural technical groups to Africa, training 2000 agricultural technicians for African countries and improving Africa's capacity to achieve food security.　　Vi. deepen medical and health cooperation, provide 500 million RMB worth of medical equipment and antimalarial materials for 30 hospitals and 30 malaria control centres, and train 3,000 medical personnel for Africa.　　VII. Strengthening human resources development and educational cooperation, assisting 50 Central African friendly schools, training l500 principals and teachers in Africa, and increasing the number of Chinese government scholarships to Africa by the year 20l2 to 5,500; in the next 3 years, the total number of training talents for Africa is 20,000. Viii. expanding people-to-people exchanges and advocating for the implementation of the "Joint Research and exchange program between China and Africa" to promote the exchanges and cooperation between scholars, think-tanks, exchange development experiences and provide intellectual support for the introduction of better cooperation policies between the two sides.