Project ID: 85189

China awards 54 Zambians the 2016-2017 Chinese Government Scholarship

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution [Government Agency]

Recipient

Zambia

Sector

Education (Code: 110)

Flow type

Scholarships/training in the donor country

Infrastructure

No

Category

Intent

Development (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Commercial

Development

Representational

Mixed

Financial Flow Classification

ODA-like (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Official Development Assistance

Other Official Flows

Vague (Official Finance)

Flows categorized based on OECD-DAC guidelines

Project lifecycle

Status

Completion (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Pledge

Commitment

Implementation

Completion

Suspended

Cancelled

Milestones

Commitment

2016-01-01

Actual start

2016-08-24

Actual complete

2017-06-01

Description

On 24 August 2016, the Chinese Embassy in Zambia hosted a farewell ceremony for the 200 Zambian winners of various scholarship programs to study in China for the 2016-2017 academic year (umbrella project #52438). More specifically, 54 Zambian students won the Chinese Government Scholarship. The value of these scholarships are unknown. During the ceremony, various speakers acknowledged that 200 scholarships was the new record for scholarships given to Zambian students in a single year. At the time, more than 2,000 Zambian students were studying in China. Up to that point, China had awarded more than 700 Government Scholarships to Zambia.

Number of official sources

1

Number of total sources

3

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Direct receiving agencies [Type]

Government of Zambia [Government Agency]

Implementing agencies [Type]

China Scholarship Council [Government Agency]