In order to further promote China-Africa scientific and technological innovation exchanges, the 2024 China-Africa Innovation Cooperation and Development Forum hosted by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the People's Government of Hubei Province opened at the Wuhan East Lake International Conference Center on the morning of November 7. The theme of this forum was "Innovation Promotes Cooperation and Cooperation Opens a New Chapter." Nearly 800 guests from home and abroad gathered to discuss China-Africa innovation collaboration and exchanges. Tanzanian student Zuhura Miraji Hamad and Sierra Leonean student Alusine Boys Conteh from the Belt and Road School of Beijing Normal University were invited as foreign guests to attend the opening ceremony of the forum and deliver keynote speeches.

The forum focused on the "ten partnership actions for China and Africa to jointly advance modernization," and focused on the fields of mutual learning among civilizations, scientific and technological innovation, modern agriculture, health, green development, etc. It included an opening ceremony, a keynote forum, and 16 special events such as the final of the 3rd China-Africa Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, China-Africa Agricultural Innovation Cooperation Forum, China-Africa Space Information and Technology Innovation Exchange Seminar and the Hubei Jingchu Science and Technology Innovation Tour for Representatives from African countries.