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Overview

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

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$1,997,401
Commitment Year•2015Country of Activity•ZimbabweDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•ZimbabweSector•EducationFlow Type•Scholarships/training in the donor country

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Dec 1, 2015
Start (planned)
Dec 1, 2015
Start (actual)
Aug 26, 2016
End (planned)
Aug 26, 2019
End (actual)
Aug 26, 2020

Stakeholders

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

Funding agencies

State-owned companies

  • Qingdao Hengshun Zhongsheng

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

  • Government of Zimbabwe

Loan desecription

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

Narrative

Full Description

Project narrative

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.