The 1st Professional Program for Leadership of the Friendship-to-China Organizations in Africa (French)
Date: July 23 to August 5, 2009
Venue: Beijing and Guangdong Province
Participants: 36 representative of friendship-to-China organizations and other related organizations from 19 countries, including Djibouti, Togo, Benin, DR Congo, Mauritania, Mali, Algeria, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Senegal, Burundi, Cote d''Ivoire, Morocco, Gabon, Madagascar, Central Africa, Comoros, Mauritius and Niger.
Objectives:
To promote the exchanges on capacity buildings between Chinese and African NGOs
To strengthen the mutual understanding and friendship between Chinese and African people and NGOs
To explore the potential of sustainable exchanges and cooperation on politics, economy, culture and other areas
Contents:
I. Classroom Studies
1. An overview of 50-year China-Africa relations
By Mr. Cheng Tao, Vice Chairmen of Chinese People''s Institute of Foreign Affairs
2. An Overview of China’s national conditions
By Mr. Xu Tiebing, Communication University of China
3. China-Africa relations and China’s African policy
By Mr. Xue Jinwei, former Chinese Ambassador to Gabon
4. China-Africa people-to-people diplomacy
By Mdm. Tang Ruimin, Deputy Secretary General of CAPFA
5. Challenges facing global economy
By Mr. Ding Yifan, Deputy Director of the Institute of World Development, Development Research Center of the State Council
6. China’s policy and programs of aid to Africa
By Zhang Lihua, Director, Department of Aid to Foreign Countries, Ministry of Commerce, PRC
7. The exchanges and cooperation of China-Africa media
By Mr. Jiang Tao, China Radio International
8. The exchanges and cooperation of China-Africa news media
By Mr. Wang Xiaojun, Xinhua News Agency, former Chief Correspondent in Congo
9. China-Africa cultural exchanges and cooperation
By Mr. Bai Guangming, former Cultural Counsellor, the Chinese Embassy in Mauritius
10. The management of Olympic Games and the tourism in Beijing
By Mr. Sun Weijia, Deputy Director of Beijing Municipal Tourism Bureau and Deputy Director of Media & Media & Communications Department, the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games
11. China and the world in the new century
By Mr. Xu Tiebing, Communication University of China
12. The cooperation on information engineering between China and Africa
By Mr. Guo Tianmin, Vice President of Huawei Technologies and former Chinese Ambassador to Gabon
II. Fieldwork
Visit to
The exhibition center of China Export Commodities Fair (Canton Fair)
The Chinese Medicine Museum of Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Xinhui Agricultural Machinery Co., Ltd. (Jiangmen, Guangdong Province)
A Mariculture base and a seafood processing industry in Guangdong Province
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
