Project ID: 53210

China Funds Congolese Scholarships to China in 2016-2017 academic year

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution [Government Agency]

Recipient

Congo (Brazzaville)

Sector

Education (Code: 110)

Flow type

Scholarships/training in the donor country

Infrastructure

No

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

Implementation (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Pledge

Commitment

Implementation

Completion

Suspended

Cancelled

Milestones

Commitment

2016-01-01

Actual start

2016-08-26

Description

On August 26, 2016, Congo (Brazzaville), Ambassador Xia Huang held in the embassy a farewell reception to send off military cadets and students to study and train in China for the 2016-2017 academic year. The recipients include military cadets, students on scholarship from the Chinese government or the Confucius Institute. When President Sassou visited China in July 2016, President Xi Jinping announced that in order to help the Congo with economic and social development, the Chinese side decided to provide more scholarships to the government, from 230 to 300 per year .

Additional details

specific number of students unclear. stage 2 research needed.

Number of official sources

1

Number of total sources

1

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Cofinanced

No