Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi starts a visit to the three African countries worst hit by Ebola - Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. Wang is the first foreign minister of a world major power to visit the West African region after the outbreak of deadly Ebola in 2014, the Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Sunday.

Wang will make the trip at the invitation of Foreign Minister of Sierra Leone Samura Kamara, Liberian Foreign Minister Augustine Ngafuan and Guinean Foreign Minister Francois Lounceny Fall.

In combating Ebola, China has provided four batches of assistance to 13 countries in and around the affected areas with a total amount of 120 million US dollars.

So far, China has sent over 1,000 medical staffers to the affected countries, treated more than 900 patients, and trained some 13,000 medical workers for Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and their neighboring countries.