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Jiangsu University Ceremoniously Held The 3rd Jiangsu University Agricultural Machinery Training Program in Zambia 2020 & Senior Workshop on Modern Agricultural Machinery and Agricultural Products Processing

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On August 18th, the Opening Ceremony of The 3rd Jiangsu University Agricultural Machinery Training Program in Zambia 2020 & Senior Workshop on Modern Agricultural Machinery and Agricultural Products Processing was ceremoniously held by Jiangsu University (JSU), assisted by the University of Zambia (UNZA) with online and offline attendance.

At JSU, Deputy Director-General Fang Jun, Department of International Cooperation and Exchanges, Ministry of Education of China, Deputy Director-General Wang Chengbin, Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education of China, sent their congratulatory videos, President Yan Xiaohong and Deputy Chair Li Hongbo, University Committee of JSU addressed at the opening ceremony. At UNZA, Vice Minister Kayula Siame, Ministry of Higher Education of Zambia, Vice Minister Songowayo Zyambo, Ministry of Agriculture of Zambia, Director General Cleophas Takaiza of TEVET of Zambia, The Acting Vice-Chancellor Tamala Tonga-Kambikambi, UNZA, and President Li Tie, CAMCO Machinery & Equipment LTD. attended the ceremony and delivered speeches. Dean Liu Zhao, The “Belt and Road” Institute of Science and Technology in Zambia, leaders of relevant functional offices, staff and students of schools (centers) that are responsible for training attended this big event. Director Huang Ting, International Office of JSU presided over the event at JSU. Director Sande Ngalande, The Belt and Road Joint Research Center of UNZA presided over the event at UNZA.

Deputy Director-General Fang Jun, Department of International Cooperation and Exchanges, Ministry of Education of China pointed out that this training program kept in line with the guiding principles embodied in a joint document recently published by The Ministry of Education and 7 other ministries to speed up and further the opening of education in the new era. By innovatively combining online teaching and practical operation, this training program would provide high-quality and high-level training to cultivate useful talents for Zambia and promote China-Africa relations to a new level.

Vice Minister Kayula Siame, Ministry of Higher Education of Zambia, extended her appreciation to Chinese government for its support of talent cultivation in Zambia, and highly appreciated the joint organization of this training program by JSU and the UNZA, which would help Zambia to achieve international cooperation, practice the concept of “A community with a Shared Future for Mankind”.

Deputy Director-General Wang Chengbin, Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education of China extended his congratulations to this training program. He affirmed that JSU contributed to China-Zambia friendship and “Belt and Road Initiative” on its strengths of agricultural engineering.

Vice Minister Songowayo Zyambo, Ministry of Agriculture of Zambia pointed out that agriculture is crucial to economic and social development. This training would help Zambia cultivate talents in the fields of modern agricultural machinery and agricultural food processing, and further promote the agricultural development in Zambia.

President Yan Xiaohong pointed out that JSU had kept close cooperation with the Zambian government and UNZA. This training program responded to the guiding principles initiated by President Xi Jinping at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation and President Xi Jinping’s instructions in his letter to agricultural universities and colleges in September 2019.

The Acting Vice-Chancellor Tamala Tonga-Kambikambi, UNZA pointed out that JSU had become an important international partner of UNZA. This training would deepen the win-win cooperation between the two universities, and provide experience, opportunities and potential for the talent cultivation between the two universities.

President Li Tie, CAMCO Machinery & Equipment LTD. said that JSU and CAMCO have a solid foundation for cooperation, and highly praised JSU’s efforts to offer agricultural machinery training in Africa, especially in Zambia. CAMCO would continue to work closely with JSU to better play its role of agricultural machinery training and practice base.

Director General Cleophas Takaiza of TEVET of Zambia expressed his heartfelt gratitude to JSU for organizing this training, and affirmed that this training would effectively provide Zambia with a platform for training highly skilled talents, promote Zambia’s overall development including productivity and economy.

Deputy Chair Li Hongbo, University Committee of JSU emphasized that JSU excelled in the discipline of agricultural engineering. As an active contributor to China’s agricultural modernization, JSU had injected its strengths of agricultural machinery into the cooperation on international education between China and Africa.

JSU, authorized by UNIDO, has held agricultural machinery management training courses for officials from 39 developing countries. Throughout years, JSU has committed to promoting the “Belt and Road” international education cooperation, the cultivation of agricultural machinery talents, which injects its strengths of agricultural machinery into the cooperation on international education between China and Africa. Moreover, the two agricultural machinery training courses conducted by JSU in Zambia in 2018 and 2019 have laid an excellent foundation for China-Zambia and China-Africa cooperation on agricultural education. This training program has recruited 500 students, from agricultural machinery managerial staff, workers, farmers and students of UNZA, Natural Resources Development College, providing them with the opportunities to acquire knowledge and skills from Chinese experts and have on-site training operations in companies such as CAMCO Machinery and Equipment (Zambia) Co., Ltd. within 3-month training period. On the evening of August 18th, Channel One of Zambia National Broadcasting Company Television reported this training program at 19:00 Headline, fully acknowledging the cooperation between JSU and Zambia.

 

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