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.