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China-Sudan education cooperation benefits students

By Wang Danna (China Daily)
Updated: 2010-06-29 11:43

Alongside business expansion and improvement, CHEC also maintains a sense of social responsibility. Donations, financial support and contribution to public welfare schemes are as important to CHEC as its commercial activities.

Sudanese students present CHEC with a silk banner and handicraft works to thank them for their sponsorship. [XU LIAN / FOR CHINA DAILY]

Sun said: "To finance Sudanese students studying in China is one way in which CHEC can fulfill its social responsibility." He said other similar projects to finance students from developing countries to study at Chinese universities are in progress. Pakistan is one of the countries that will send students to China soon.

Sun hopes that CHEC will continue to be involved in public welfare and strengthen cooperation with local governments and relevant authorities.

At the graduation ceremony, President of Hohai University Wang Cheng spoke highly of the Sudanese students' progress. Wang thought CHEC had set a good example among overseas Chinese enterprises in terms of fulfilling social responsibility and implementing a "going out" strategy, which will help further strengthen friendship between Sudan and China.

The Sudan ambassador said that: "Chinese companies have played a very important role in promoting bilateral relations. CHEC is one of the Chinese companies that entered Sudan very early in the 1980s and has contributed in building infrastructure including roads and bridges."

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The ambassador said that these graduate students will be a backbone to boost Sudan's economic growth and expressed his gratitude to the Chinese government and people, especially CHEC and Hohai University.

John Ladu, one of the 10, on behalf of Sudanese students, expressed thanks to the top management of CHEC and presented flowers and souvenirs to their professors from Hohai.

Some of the students said they would like to come back to China again or work for Chinese companies including CHEC. There will be a few of Sudanese students joining the CHEC group and working for the company's Sudan office, according to CHEC.

"Hohai University is already preparing to welcome the next 10 students," Ren Liliang, director of Hohai's International Office, said.