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On the week of December 23rd, 2019, The Chinese Cultural Center in Benin hosted 200 students in week-long classes in Chinese calligraphy and modeling. The Yunnan Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism also helped facilitate the classes. For the Chinese calligraphy classes, the trainings were divided into 4 classes of 30 people. The teacher was Yang Zhengguo, deputy director of the Creative Research Department of Yunnan Art Museum. Zhengguo taught about Chinese character evolution, general calligraphy, the structure of Tang Kai, and basic strokes. The students graduated from the calligraphy classes on December 23rd, 2019. The model training class was divided into 2 classes, with 40 people each. The teacher was Long Yi Haogu, who was involved in literary training in Yunnan Provincial Cultural Museum. The course for modeling was in two parts: The first was a theoretical class about the modeling industry and the typical models of Yunnan, China. The second part was an on-site teaching course, where they went over modeling performances and training for the walking gait and model standing techniques. The modeling students also graduated on December 23rd, 2019, where they performed their modeling.