For this particular research,the purpose is to find out the effects of Belt and Road Initiative（BRI）on the economy of the China-Africa economic relationship.The research will be focused on trade between China and different African countries.As for methodology,data was collected from The General Administration of Customs of the People’s Republic of China（GACC）.Excel was used to analyse the data and present it in graphs and tables.The data is analysed at both the aggregated and country level.The outcomes of the whole research were that there is indeed a positive effect on both China and Africa’s economic relationship,meaning that both gain from the obvious mutual relationship that is beneficial.Results are evident,clear,and attest to that the economic relationship between China and Africa is a positive one.The general trend among the countries in the different regions of Africa is that there is more growth in imports and not exports.Most African countries bought more rather than they sold.The Belt and Road Initiative does have a positive effect on China and Africa’s trade relationship.The general trend is increasing volumes in trade between China and Africa.Despite some years being bad trading years,the BRI in some cases has help some African countries.Both China and Africa have benefited from their relationship and the BRI has also strengthened and significantly brought positive effects.China has also benefited from Africa’s natural resources that it does not possess on its own.The role of China’s presence in Africa has been significantly positive and more importantly,the majority of African states have been welcoming to China.The outcome shows that even though there are years that deficits are experienced,the trading relationship between China and Africa is beneficial to both of them.The outline of this thesis is to firstly discuss in detail and introduce to the reader the research background,questions,objectives,methods,and results in the first chapter.Then state the research purpose,contents and results,as well as the research method.Thereafter in the second chapter,the literature review relating to the topic will be covered.Chapter three will cover the analysis of China and Africa’s trade.The fourth chapter gives the findings,conclusion and recommendations.This thesis has added some new contributions in this field of research in a few mentionable ways.Firstly,the effect of BRI is not only found by grouping continents or countries of one continent but rather by individually looking at each African country,its exports and imports as well.The analysis of each country’s trade is also one of the contributions that this study makes because by analysing this,we get to understand and see if a country or region is trading in surplus or not.We also identify the general or common pattern in trading.This study also analyses the percentage growth of the different regions of Africa and the individual countries that are in it.This makes it easy to understand and see the effects of BRI initiative on each country.However,this research has been conducted and carried out while in China.Therefore,due to time constraints,it is impossible to travel out and gather extra additional sources and information.Another limitation is the ever-changing nature of China’s engagement in Africa which makes it hard to track the changes that might occur during this study and that might affect the finding by the time it is processed and published.Moreover,this research is primary and limited.In the future the data can be further analysed in terms of trade growth rate,trade shares,and partnership ranks to see the growing importance and relation between China and Africa.The effect of BRI on China-Africa trade relationship should be further clarified from the economic theoryand tested quantitatively through econometric analysis.