China launched 'Hundred Talents Program' for training professional technical personnel for Central-Asia Natural Gas Project (Linked to Record ID##39955, #70616)

Project narrative

On October 10, 2017, Xi'an Shiyou University of China held the launching ceremony of the "Hundred Talents Program". In 2016, Xi'an Shiyou University successfully won the bid for the Trans-Tajik Gas Pipeline Company Limited (TTGP) foreign employee training project. After the launching of Central-Asia Natural Gas Project (captured in #39955), according to the agreement between the governments of China and Tajikistan, China will train 90 relevant professional localized technical personnel for Tajikistan. Therefore, TTGP actively sought out Chinese partner universities to undertake the localized staff training tasks required for the construction and operation of the pipeline. According to the agreement, the company will select the first group of 30 students from Tajikistan to come to China to study Chinese language and oil and gas pipeline transportation and other professional academic education, and become the first group of students to come to China in the TTGP China-Tajikistan school-enterprise cooperation talent training project "Hundred Talents Program". The first thirty students to receive the training were selected from the 1,000 top students, with the assistance of National Testing Center of Tajikistan, and China National Natural Gas Pipeline Co., Ltd., under the approval of the Deputy Prime Minister of Tajikistan. The students will take Chinese language courses in Tianjin University for one year, and in Xi'an Shiyou University for another year. Then they will study the undergraduate major courses of oil and gas storage and transportation in Xi'an Shiyou University. After graduation, they will work professionally for the Line D of Central-Asia Natural Gas Project. Fifteen students out of thirty received scholarships of the "Silk Road" Program from the Chinese Government. China-Central Asia natural gas pipeline Line D is an inter-governmental project signed by China, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. The construction of the Tajikistan section of the 1,000-km-long line was launched in September 2014. Tajikistan has the longest section of the pipeline at about 410 km. For details on this project see #39955 and #70616.