Sino-African Relations:A Chronology

Despite the geographical distance that separates them, China and Africa cherish a relationship lasting over 2,000 years. According to historical records, China had contacts with Africa as earty as the third century B.C. In the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220). Exchanges became frequent In the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and Song Dynasty (960-1279). In the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), Chinese navigator Zheng He traveled to what Is now Somalia and Kenya on the east African