Chinas involvement in Africa has been a hot topic in recent years, and two extreme voices arise: either the criticisms or the praises from the Western and Chinese media respectively. But the African people, whose voice should be much more reliable in assessing Chinas engagement with African countries, are almost fully neglected. Therefore, it is of great significance to understand the perspectives of local Africans towards Chinas performance on the African continent to avoid being lost in multitude of international comments. The thesis aims to understand authentic African views of Chinas engagement in Africa. Literature research and investigation data analysis are used to study African peoples response to Chinas performance from a macroscopic and comprehensive perspective, while a case study on copper mining in Zambia analyzes the theme from a microscopic angle.　　Empirical survey results show that, in general, African hold a positive view of Chinas performance, and those optimistic responses to Chinas involvement are challenging or even exceeding their favor to the United States. However, through data comparison and case study, this article finds that just focus on a general conclusion and ignore the specific views of different countries and groups of a given country would be dangerous indeed. The case study of Chinas involvement in the Zambian mining sector illustrates how government, laborers and the social community gained and lost in their interaction with the Chinese mining company. However, a major problem is that the attention of concerned parties is in most cases focused solely on the short-term gains and losses rather than the long-term ones, and each tends to make assessment according to the comparison of what other firms do rather than in light to what they should gain absolutely according to the contract. Two suggestions are followed, therefore,to the Chinese decision makers to improve Chinas image in Africa.