A total of 12 undergraduates from Mozambique’s University Eduardo Mondlane (UEM) received the annual Chinese Ambassador Scholarship on Friday.
The award, set up in 2018, showed the Chinese ambassador’s support for the UEM, and encouragement to students majoring in Chinese language and culture in the university’s Confucius Institute, said UEM President Orlando Quilambo through a video to the ceremony held in the newly-built CI lecture hall.
Commending the institute’s work, Quilambo said that since its foundation, the institute had been carrying out a series of academic and cultural activities to fulfill its commitment and consolidate the relations between Mozambique and China, which was appreciated by the university and Mozambican society.
“This year we have witnessed the graduation of the first group of Chinese-major students, which represents a moment of satisfaction for the achievement of the established goals when the institute was started in our university,”said Quilambo.
The Chinese Ambassador to Mozambique Wang Hejun said in a recorded video that China had become one of the major investment and trade partners of Mozambique in recent years, adding that many Mozambican young talents had joined the cooperation projects between the two countries.
According to the ambassador, there will be an increasing demand for bilingual talents with Chinese and Portuguese language skills and mastering the Chinese language has become an advantage in job hunting for local graduates.
“I also hope that the scholarship will inspire more Mozambican students to seize the opportunities brought by the developing relations between China and Mozambique, and to help them chase their dreams in life,” said Wang.
In herspeech,Nuria Samuel, one of the scholarship winners, thanked the Confucius Institute for providing a platform for Chinese language learning.
She said that she loved Chinese so much that she even created a Chinese language channel on YouTube. (Xinhua/NAN)
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