Recently, Science and Technology Daily reporter conducted an exclusive interview with Gert Grobler, a former senior diplomat of South Africa and an honorary professor at the Institute of African Studies at China's Zhejiang Normal University, in Pretoria, South Africa. Grobler said the successful hosting of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) has become a turning point in the development of China-Africa relations, opening up a new chapter for building a community with a shared future in the new era.