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

Commitment Year•2011Country of Activity•CongoDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•CongoSector•EducationFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Sep 26, 2011
Start (actual)
Apr 27, 2013
End (actual)
Nov 17, 2015

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This project involved the construction of the Sino-Congolese Friendship Scientific High School (or Massengo scientific high school) in Djiri, the 9th district (arrondissement) of the capital city of Brazzaville. More detailed locational information can be found at: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/1193186648

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

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

  • Government of Republic of Congo

Implementing agencies

Private Sector

  • Nantong Construction Engineering Group Co., Ltd.

Loan desecription

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

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Project narrative

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.

Staff comments

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.