Southern Africa is the most developed sub-region of Africa. Over the years，economic cooperation between China and Southern Africa has been developing smoothly，and has made significant achievements. The future of the bilateral economic cooperation will largely depend on the development trends of Southern African countries’ economic strategies，as well as the solutions of the existing problems of the bilateral economic cooperation. This paper reviews the economic development and industry development of the SADC member states in recent years and analyzes the latest development of economic cooperation between Southern Africa and other major economies of the world. Based on the above analysis，this paper points out the significance and the principles of the bilateral economic cooperation，and puts forward the path of the future cooperation. The last part of this paper gives some policy recommendations on how to solve the existing problems of the current cooperation between the two sides.