2021 Sino-Africa International Symposium on Textiles and Apparel & Sino-Africa Cultural Exchange Forum

Green Textile Technology and Sustainable Development

Project

Background

Based on China-Africa Cooperation Sharm El Sheikh Action Plan, Donghua University, China and Moi University, Kenya being the partners of the Sino-Africa 20+20  University Cooperation Project, decided in 2015 to organize an annual Sino-Africa  symposium on Textiles and Apparel (SAISTA), alternating between China and Kenya  or other African countries. The past events include SAISTA 2015 in Shanghai, China;  SAISTA 2016 in Mombasa, Kenya; SAISTA 2017 in Shanghai, China; SAISTA 2018 in  Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and SAISTA 2019 in Shanghai, China. Despite the pandemic,  SAISTA 2020 was hosted jointly by Donghua University and Moi University online in  August, broadcast via Kenyan National TV channel and by various Chinese media and  social platforms, gaining more audience and reputation. In addition, six conference  proceedings have been published, which contains hundreds of papers contributing to  the heated discussed topics in the fields.  

Starting from 2016, the Sino-Africa Cultural Exchange Forum (SACEF) was added  to SAISTA in order to reinforce Sino-Africa people-to-people exchange and collaborations in softer sciences, contributing to the friendly relationships between China and  African countries. The objective of SACEF is to provide a platform for textile and  apparel professionals from universities, research institutions and industry to promote collaboration between China and Africa, and to explore potential business opportunities and cultural exchanges.