Chinese SOE provides 50-100 scholarships annually for Zimbabwean students to study in China

On 1 December, 2015, China state-owned Qingdao Hengshun Zhongsheng signed a memorandum of understanding to provide 100 scholarships annually for Zimbabwean students to study in China. Presidential Scholarship Scheme Director, Chris Mushohwe, and Qingdao Hengshun Zhongsheng Zimbabwe General Manager, Brian He, signed the MOU. On August 26, 2016, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe held a farewell ceremony for 50 students who are going to undertake undergraduate studies at a Chinese university. The students will be studying at the Ocean University of China in east China's Qingdao city for the next four years, the students are expected to graduate in 2020. They are being sponsored at a cost of 12 million Chinese yuan (1.8 million U.S. dollars). The students are mostly majoring in the Chinese language, international economics and trade and business administration. A Chinese governmental agency will help implement the program, but it is unclear which agency will do so. The Presidential Scholarship Scheme provided scholarships for 20,000 students up to 2015. This project only captures the scholarships funded by Qingdao Hengshun Zhongsheng.

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