Project ID: 88699

Chinese Embassy hosts new media training course for Myanmar officials in Beijing

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

Chinese Embassy [Government Agency]

Recipient

Myanmar

Sector

Government and civil society (Code: 150)

Flow type

Scholarships/training in the donor country

Infrastructure

No

Category

Intent

Mixed (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Commercial

Development

Representational

Mixed

Financial Flow Classification

OOF-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

2019-11-22

Actual start

2019-11-18

Actual complete

2019-11-22

Geography

Description

According to a news release from the Embassy of China in Myanmar, from November 18 to 22, 2019, the Chinese Embassy hosted a new media training course for Burmese officials in Beijing. During the seminar, 10 officials from Myanmar Ministry of Information went to see the headquarters of Chinese media companies such as People's Daily, China International Publishing House, and Global Network, and visited the Big Data Center of Communication University of China and Huawei's Beijing exhibition hall, and exchanged views with Chinese scholars on new media capacity building. During the visit they also visited the China-ASEAN Center. The officials stated that the training deepened their understanding of the development of new media in China, which will help promote exchanges and cooperation in the media field between the two countries.

Number of official sources

2

Number of total sources

2

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Direct receiving agencies [Type]

Myanmar Ministry of Information [Government Agency]