The appearance of Africans in China is one of the results of China’s integration into the world，which attracted the attention of global media and local governments. The research on Africans in China has been carried out for over 10 years，with focusing on the following 9 topics：geographical distribution，cause of migration，population characteristics，population size，nature of concentrated area，social network，Sino-African relations，local response and social integration，by which a full image of Africans in China was portrayed. The report reviews the literatures on Africans in Guangzhou，presents the produced knowledge about the group for Chinese academia and the public，and gives a further comment to the significance of the research.