Chinese Government provides grant for Sino-Congolese Friendship Scientific High School Construction Project

On September 26, 2011, the Chinese Government and the Republic of Congo signed a grant agreement regarding the Sino-Congolese Friendship Scientific High School Construction Project. The monetary value of the grant commitment is unknown. This project involved the construction of the Sino-Congolese Friendship Scientific High School in Djiri, the 9th district (arrondissement) of the capital city of Brazzaville. The 3-level building has 36 rooms that are electrified and ventilated and equipped with tables with desks and chairs. The building has twelve classrooms (each of which can accommodate forty students), twelve laboratories (for courses in biology, chemistry, and physics), two libraries (with the capacity to hold 20,000 books) with a computer systems for the exit and entry of books, and an amphitheater on the ground floor the can accommodate 165 students. Nan Tong (or Nantong) Construction was the contractor responsible for project implementation. Construction began on April 27, 2013. The school was officially inaugurated on November 17, 2015. The ceremony was attended by the First Lady of Congo, Antoinette Sassou N'Guesso, and the Congolese Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, and Literacy, Youth and Civic Education, Anatole Collinet Makosso.

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This school is also known as the Massengo scientific high school. The French project title is le lycée scientifique de Massengo. The Chinese project title is 刚果布马桑果中学 or 援刚果（布）中学.

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