Project ID: 1440

Chinese Government provides RMB 90 million grant for Ethio-China Polytechnic College Construction Project

Commitment amount

$ 22991135.38

Constant 2017 USD

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

China Ministry of Commerce [Government Agency]

Recipient

Ethiopia

Sector

Education (Code: 110)

Flow type

Grant

Concessional

Yes

Category

Intent

Development (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Commercial

Development

Representational

Mixed

Financial Flow Classification

ODA-like (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Official Development Assistance

Other Official Flows

Vague (Official Finance)

Flows categorized based on OECD-DAC guidelines

Project lifecycle

Status

Completion (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Pledge

Commitment

Implementation

Completion

Suspended

Cancelled

Milestones

Commitment year

2003

Implementation

2005

2005-03-31

Actual start

Completion

2007

2007-10-01

Actual

Geography

Description

In 2003 according to Chinese Ambassador to Ethiopia, Ai Ping, China committed an RMB 90 million grant to Ethiopia to finance the construction of the Ethio-China Polytechnic College in Kotebe in Yeka District. The project involved the construction of a 23,000 square kilometer campus consisting of 14 buildings (including a Multi-functional Office Building, Industrial Technology Building, Textile & Garment Building, Hotel Service Building, Business Education Building, Construction Technology Building), 53 classrooms, 5 computer labs, 53 workshops, 50 offices, 1 library, 1 reading room, 2 student dormitories, and 1 multifunctional hall. The contractor was Anhui Longan Construction Company. Construction took two years from 2005 until 2007. The project entered construction on March 31, 2005. A project completion ceremony was held in October 2007. In 2010, 330 students attended 3rd and 4th level Technical and Vocational Education and Training education, according to Lu Shuangying, dean of the Ethio-China Polytechnic College.

Additional details

The project is referred to as 埃塞―中国职业技术学院 in Chinese.

Number of official sources

5

Number of unofficial sources

8

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Receiving agencies [Type]

Government of Ethiopia [Government Agency]

Implementing agencies [Type]

Anhui Longan Construction Company [State-owned Company]