Hanban funds construction of new Confucius Institute of Havana Building

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.

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