Overview

China provides the 10th round of technical assistance to the Comoros Radio and Television Center (Linked to Record ID#52997, #57214)

Commitment Year•2023Country of Activity•ComorosDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•ComorosSector•CommunicationsFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date: Jan 1, 2023

Start (actual): Jan 1, 2023

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This project entailed China providing the Comoros Radio and Television Center the 10th round of technical assistance to expand nationwide television coverage to the island of Moheli. More detailed locational information can be found at https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/14113305, https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/2955018

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

Government Agencies

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution

Receiving agencies

State-owned companies

Comoros Radio and Television Center

Loan description

China provides the 10th round of technical assistance to the Comoros Radio and Television Center (Linked to Record ID#52997, #57214)

Narrative

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In 2013, the Comoros government decided to adopt China's digital TV standards and hoped that China would help it achieve nationwide digital TV coverage, which was the first in Africa. In 2016, the digital TV coverage project on Moheli Island was launched. From November 5 to December 6, 2016, CBC sent a team of experts to install digital TV equipment at three sites, namely, the Comoros Radio and Television Center, Comoros Telecom, and Moheli Island. CCTV-4 TV programs, film and television programs, Comoros Radio and Television Center programs and an Arabic TV program were transmitted to Moheli Island via submarine optical cables. Through digital TV transmitters, digital TV programs were effectively covered in the capital of Moheli Island, Fomboni, and the hometown of former President Ikililou, which local people welcomed. In 2023, the technical assistance project to the Comoros Radio and Television Center will provide Comoros with 4 sets of digital TV transmission systems again, raising the coverage rate of digital TV signals in Comoros to 75%. The inspections for this 9th technical assistance phase were implemented on July 22, 2017. The Radio and Television Center was constructed in the early 2000s with help from Chinese finance (See Record ID#395).