During his visit to Sudan from August 23rd to 26th, President Diao Jiandong paid an official call to Zhou Chunlin, Counselor of Economic and Commercial Affairs of Chinese Embassy in Sudan. The president visited Sudan to attend the opening ceremony of the “2015 Sudan Cotton Technology Overseas Training Class”, a China-aid training program hosted by the Ministry of Commerce and undertaken by SFTC. He also met with some former trainees of China-aid training programs from the Ministries of Science and Technology, Agriculture and Industry of Sudan. Mr. Zhang Qingguo, Deputy Director of the college’s China-Aid Training Program Administration Office, accompanied the president’s visit.
As an authorized undertaker of China-aid training programs, SFTC has opened more than 20 training workshops for over 400 foreign officials and technicians from nearly 70 countries since 2012. The training workshops have been focused on cloud-computing and supercomputing, big data management, the industrialization of agriculture, and project management. In 2015, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce launched the Outbound Training Pilot Program, providing technical China-aid trainings for personnel from the developing countries. The current visit of President Diao aimed to get useful experience of outbound training and to work on strengthening economic links of related enterprise from Shandong Province and the aid-receiving countries.
In their meeting on 23rd, Counselor Zhou made suggestions on how to carry out successful foreign training workshops in Sudan and to put SFTC’s advantages into full potential in international trade, logistics and transportation, e-commerce, IT technology and enterprise management. All the efforts of STFC have been highly praised by Counselor Zhou and he also expressed his willingness to support SFTC’s future training programs in Sudan.
On 24th, President Diao attended and addressed the opening ceremony of the “2015 China-aid Cotton Technology Training Class”, which was held in the Sudanese Agriculture Model Center located in the State of Gedaref. Mr. Ibraheem Abu Zaid, Director General of the Agriculture Extension Service Bureau of Sudan, and Mr. Azim, Director of the Biology Security Committee of Sudan also presented at the ceremony and delivered their speeches. The Training Class will train 120 persons in four terms in 90 days, boasting the largest in number of trainees and the longest in training time among the first-batch of China-aid training programs sponsored by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce.
On August 25th, President Diao met with the former trainees of SFTC. They are from the Sudanese Ministries of Science and Technology, Agriculture and Industry, Al Phasil Agriculture University and the Biology Security Committee of Sudan. The president inquired in detail on the trainees’ work after they return to their country, how they have applied what they have learned in China to their jobs. The issue on how to increase exportation of Sudanese products to other countries has been extensively discussed. The president said that there are plenty of chances that Sudan can cooperate with Shandong Province in the fields of humanities, education, technology, trade and etc. Many enterprises from Shandong wish to enhance trading opportunities with Sudan and SFTC is very willing to facilitate the cooperation and exchanges.
China-aid training for the personnel from the developing countries has become an integral part and a major channel in diplomacy and the promotion of foreign cooperation. Seated in Qingdao, which is at the forefront of the country’s “One Belt, One Road” Strategy, SFTC will respond actively to the call of government by engaging in the overseas training to make full usage of its geographical advantage, superiority in foreign trade education and other social resources. SFTC’s efforts are to shoulder its social responsibility as well as to distinguish its “Globalised Orientation” in providing vocational education.
