China donates television sets to Chad in Connecting Thousands of Villages Project

In 2015, at the Johannesburg Summit of the China-Africa Cooperation Forum, where President of China Xi Jinping committed that China would provide satellites to a total of 10,000 villages in Africa (“万村通”乍得项目). On August 28, 2018, China launched the Connecting Thousands of Villages Project in Chad. The project includes install projection equipment or digital TV for public viewing areas in 200 villages and 4000 households free of charge, equipped with solar power supply equipment, and donate set-top boxes and satellite TV receivers to 20 families in each village. On November 6, 2019, Chargé d'affaires Fang Yunlong and the Minister of Information of Chad, Omar Yaya Hussein, respectively, on behalf of their respective governments, signed the handover certificate of the Wancuntong project in N’Djamena. A number of cabinet members including the Minister of State and Secretary-General of the Presidential Office Deby attended the ceremony.

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