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China to expand Tashkent Confucius Institutes Uzbekistan

Commitment Year•2015Country of Activity•UzbekistanSector•EducationFlow Type•Grant

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Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

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Commitment date
Jan 1, 2015
End (actual)
Sep 29, 2018

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The Confucius Institute at Tashkent State Institute of Oriental Studies is located in the city of Tashkent. More detailed locational information can be found at https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/31963256 and https://www.google.com/maps/place/Tashkent+State+Institute+of+Oriental+Studies/@41.3052402,69.2794599,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x38ae8ad678db7371:0xdd20e1d940f6a283!8m2!3d41.3052362!4d69.2816539

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

Loan description

China to expand Tashkent Confucius Institutes Uzbekistan

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The Confucius Institute at Tashkent State University will increase the number of Chinese teachers. Prospects of development of cooperation between China and Uzbekistan in the sphere of higher education were discussed on July 8 in the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Special Education at a meeting with Chinese Ambassador Sun Lizi. As reported by "Gazete.uz" in the ministry, the meeting was attended by the Minister of Higher and Secondary Special Education Alisher Vakhabov, rector of the Tashkent State Institute of Oriental Abdulrahim Mannonov and Rector of the Uzbek State University of World Languages Shukhrat Kayumov. During the discussion of activities of the Institute named after Confucius at the Tashkent State Institute of Oriental Studies and Samarkand State Institute of Foreign Languages was agreed to increase the number of Chinese language teachers in the Confucius Institute at Tashkent State University. This project is part of the SREB plan. May be linked to Record ID#53997 and #53998 where China pledges to modernize Soviet-era railway and provide 300 scholarships to Uzbekistan students, respectively.