China today marks National Day
11:28 | 01.10.2016 Category: Political
Chisinau, 1 October /MOLDPRES/ - The People’s Republic of China, a state in Central and Eastern Asia, which borders with Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Mongolia, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Myanmar, India, Bhutan, Nepal, marks its National Day today.
China has an area of 9.6 million square kilometres, ranking second in the world in terms of the land area, and a population of 1.350 billion residents. China’s capital is the Beijing city. The country includes 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities of central subordination (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Chongqing) and two special administrative regions, having mostly a self-governance system (Hong Kong and Macao).
The country exports non-ferrous metals, oil, industrial machines and equipments, chemical products, ready-made clothes, textiles, silk, cotton, leather and agricultural goods. China imports raw materials, equipments and industrial semi-finished goods, transport means, food products. The country has foreign trade with the USA, Japan, Germany, France, Spain, Russia and other countries.
The diplomatic relations between Moldova and the People’s Republic of China were established on 30 January 1992. The Chinese Ambassador to Moldova is Zhang Yinghong and the Ambassador of Moldova to China is Aureliu Ciocoi.
In 2010-2015, the government of China initiated six projects worth over 18.6 million euros in Moldova. Presently, the projects underway, financed by the government of China, amount to 11.6 million euros. The Chinese government has donated 1,200 computers and 220 printers for universities, schools and student hostels of Moldova within a project on endowing Moldovan education institutions with electronic equipment and computers alone.
Also, the government of China provides training courses for Moldova’s civil servants in diverse sectors and in 2014, the two countries signed an inter-ministerial agreement in the education field, which provides for the Chinese government doubling the number scholarships for Moldovan students (from ten to 20 scholarships annually).
The cultural cooperation is carried out based on a programme on cooperation between the Culture Ministry of Moldova and the Culture Ministry of China for 2015-2018, signed on 18 February 2014. In the last years, the Chinese Culture Days in Moldova have been organized in Chisinau.
(Reporter N. Roibu, editor A. Raileanu)
