The China-Africa Youth Festival is launched to implement important consensuses reached between Chinese Presidents Xi Jinping and leaders of African countries at the 2015 Johannesburg Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), promote the exchanges between Chinese and African youths, consolidate traditional friendship between China and Africa, and nurture future generations who will carry forward the China-Africa friendship.
The 2016 and 2017 China-Africa Youth Festivals were held in China and Africa respectively.
Since 2018, the China-Africa Youth Festival has been undertaken by the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation (CSCLF) and it has played important roles in deepening mutual understanding and friendship between Chinese and African youths.
