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On August 23, 2019 at an award ceremony 310 Ghanaian students were provided full scholarship awards to study in various Chinese universities during the 2019/2020 academic year. According to a publication from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at the ceremony were over 300 attendees including Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, Shi Ting Wang, Ghana's Minister of Education Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, and Chief Director of Ghana's Ministery of Foreign Affairs Albert Yankey, alongside media representatives from The Ghana News Agency, Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, Ghana Times, Xinhua News Agency, and CGTN. At the award ceremony, Ambassador Wang was reported to have said that Ghana receives the highest number of scholarships from China among all African countries. According to a news release from Ghana's Graphic Online News the beneficiaries will pursue undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctorate degrees in public administration, agriculture, architecture, information and communications technologies, environmental engineering, traditional Chinese medicine, and other disciplines at Chinese universities such as Peking, Tsinghua, among others. For 2018, it was reported that 6,475 Ghanaian students were studying in China, while 1,329 student visas were issued in the same year. A media release from Happy Ghana published on April 9, 2020, had quoted Chinese Ambassador H.E. Shi Ting Wang as stating that the impact of Covid-19 would not affect the scholarship commitments.