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Overview

Hanban funds construction of new Confucius Institute of Havana Building

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$754,197
Commitment Year•2015Country of Activity•CubaSector•EducationFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Jan 1, 2015
End (actual)
Oct 14, 2015

Geospatial footprint

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Hanban funds construction of new Confucius Institute of Havana Building. More detailed locational information can be found at: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5113865322

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

  • Hanban, Confucius Institute Headquarters

Implementing agencies

Government Agencies

  • Government of Cuba

Loan description

Hanban funds construction of new Confucius Institute of Havana Building

Narrative

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Project narrative

On 14 October, 2015, the Confucius Institute of la Universidad de Habana inaugurated its new headquarters in el Barrio Chino of Havana (the Chinatown of Havana). The new installation is a four-floor building called el Edificio Pacifico, for which the Confucius Institute Headquarters contributed 650,000 euro and the Cuban government contributed 5 million pesos. This new headquarters comes as a result of a cooperation agreement with the Office of the International Council for the Chinese Language, which is also known as Hanban. The inauguration was attended by Miguel Díaz-Canel, first vice president of the Council of State and Ministers of Cuba, Dr. Rodolfo Alarcón, minister of Higher Education, Zhang Tuo, Chinese ambassador to Cuba and Dr. Gustavo Cobreiro, rector of University of Havana. The Confucius Institute was originally inaugurated on 30 November, 2009 in a small campus of the University of Havana. The building was opened 6 years after construction began.