As a natural extension of the Belt and Road Initiative, African countries and related regions areone of key areas to construct the Free Trade Area in the future. Due to the impact of the COVID- 19 pandemicand other factors, the global economy is facing greater pressure. Both China and Africa should make fulluse of the historical opportunities for the establishment of the China-Mauritius FTA and the establishmentof AfCFTA, accelerate the layout of the China-Africa Free Trade Zone, and resolve some of the obstacles intime. In the process of building a Free Trade Area, China needs to comprehensively consider the time cost ofFTA negotiations and the reality of the African continent, make reasonable use of the existing institutionalarrangements on the continent, and pay close attention to various parties' concern, properly handle variouscontradictions, give full play to the coordination role of the AU in the construction of the China-Africa FTA, andprudently plan the construction of FTA on the basis of safeguarding China 's legitimate interests, and choose thebest FTA construction path timely.