The friendship between China and Zimbabwe has also taken root in the hearts of the peoples of the two countries. As far as I know, there is a Chinese diaspora living in Zimbabwe called "Love of Af."

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g）。 For many years, they have been sending love and warmth to local orphans, writing the "present tense" of China-Zimbabwe friendship with practical actions, and also cultivating the "future tense" of China-Zimbabwe friendship.

-- Signed article published in Zimbabwean media, "Let China-Zimbabwe Friendship Bloom More Brilliantly" (November 30, 2015)

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Donate to orphanages in the local area, find medicine for orphans, and give spiritual care to orphans...... Among the Zimbabwean diaspora, there is a group of caring mothers called "Must Love".

According to statistics, there are about 1.8 million orphans in Zimbabwe, who have been abandoned by their parents or whose parents have died young, and many of them are AIDS orphans. Some of the lucky orphans were taken in by the Social Welfare Bureau and assigned to various orphanages, and many became street children. Due to the constraints of economic and social development, most orphanages in Zimbabwe are very poorly funded. On April 10, 2014, Peng Yan and some Chinese mothers in Zimbabwe decided to set up a non-profit organization to help more orphans. The mothers have come up with a catchy name for the organization – "Must Love", a pun that means both "must love" and "love in Africa".

After the establishment of the "Must Love" Caring Mothers Group, several orphanages with scarce funds were specially selected to provide support. In addition to actively donating money and materials, he also helped the children to raise school fees. On the African continent, the mothers of "must love" sowed seeds of love, and together with the tireless "Cheng Dad", they warmed the hearts of orphans. Such acts of kindness have touched many people, and Lindy, the financial manager of Caroyi Orphanage, is very grateful for this selfless help. "I've never met people as kind and caring as them, never," she said. They pay for their school fees, bring them new mattresses, and buy them food...... Without the help of caring mothers in China, it would be difficult for us to survive. ”

In a signed article published by the Zimbabwean media, Xi Jinping told the moving story of the "Must Love" mothers' group. The Sunday Mail, a mainstream local newspaper, used the headline "From China, With Love" when it published an article signed by Xi Jinping. The newspaper's editor-in-chief later said in an interview that the headline was based on his direct feelings after reading the article.

In the article, Xi also quoted two proverbs, one is Zimbabwe's "a firewood can't cook Saza" (Saza, or Sadza, which means white corn flour in the common language of Zimbabwe, and is a staple food loved by the Zimbabwean people), and the other is what the Chinese often say, "everyone gathers firewood and the flame is high." It can be said that friendly exchanges between the Chinese and African people are a solid cornerstone for the development of China-Africa relations. As Xi Jinping pointed out in his keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the Second China-Africa People-to-People Forum in 2012: "At present, more and more ordinary people are directly involved in China-Africa cooperation and exchanges, and the expectations of the Chinese and African people for the development of China-Africa relations are also getting higher and higher. We need to actively create conditions for more people on both sides to share the increasingly fruitful fruits of China-Africa cooperation, and further consolidate the public opinion foundation for China-Africa cooperation. ”