work with African countries to set up “Luban Workshops”, and encourage and support the
efforts of Chinese enterprises to carry out vocational training in African countries. China
will encourage Chinese companies in Africa to offer at least 800,000 local jobs.
4.3.3 China will implement a plan for cultivating talents for China and Africa in the postCOVID era, build or upgrade 10 schools in Africa, and invite 10,000 high-level African
professionals to seminars and workshops.
4.3.4 Under the Chinese government scholarship programs, China will continue to train
professionals in relevant fields. The two sides will actively explore setting up a ChinaAfrica joint R&D center or lab for road engineering.
4.3.5 The two sides will make joint efforts to further improve training programs with the
view to align the programs to current developmental priorities of African countries.
4.3.6 China and Africa will foster new projects on capacity building in poverty reduction,
rural revitalization, lCT, fintech, digital economy, e-commerce, cloud computing, big data
and cyberspace security in order to leverage relevant impact on the high potential growth
of these sectors in Africa, with a special emphasis on womens’ participation.
4.3.7 The two sides will continue to support the development of Confucius Institutes and
Classrooms in Africa. China welcomes the inclusion of the Chinese language into African
countries’ national curriculum, and will further support Chinese language teaching in
Africa through various ways. China will further provide teaching and training of African
languages in China, and nurture more professionals who are fluent in African languages.
4.3.8 Phase III of the UNESCO-China Funds-in-Trust has been successfully launched
and made notable achievements. The two sides will continue to implement the project
and will consider extending it for another 4 years (2023-2026).
4.3.9 China will work with Africa to launch experts exchange programs and joint research
projects on R&D cooperation; software development; policy planning, monitoring and
evaluation. The two sides will design new models of training in designated African
countries and maximize their effect in the end user socio- economic contexts.
4.4 Cooperation and Exchanges on Poverty Reduction and Rural Development
4.4.1 The African side highly commends China’s historic achievements in eliminating
absolute poverty. China will work with Africa to actively build a poverty reduction and
development partner alliance, and rally the extensive participation of Chinese and
African businesses, social organizations, research institutes and other parties in ChinaAfrica cooperation on poverty reduction and rural development. The two sides will work
to gradually establish multi-tiered dialogue mechanisms for poverty reduction and rural
development between the two governments and societies.
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