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Overview

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

Commitment Year•2015Country of Activity•ChadSector•CommunicationsFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Dec 4, 2015
Start (actual)
Aug 28, 2018
End (actual)
Nov 6, 2019

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

  • Unspecified Chinese Government Institution

Implementing agencies

Government Agencies

  • Government of Chad

Loan description

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

Narrative

Full Description

Project narrative

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.