China-Africa cooperation and exchanges in the new era face many new problems and challenges. In particular，the COVID-19 outbreak at the beginning of 2020 poses a more severe and urgent challenge to the governance of international migration in China’s primary level communities. Based on the field survey of the off-campus community of African students in China，this paper presents the “suspension” status of international students in the community and management mode of overseas personnel in China’s primary level community governance，and discusses the interaction between the two. Combined with the test of the COVID-19，extracting a new management scheme for overseas personnel in primary level communities with Chinese characteristics，superiority and operability in the new era.