China to donate 10 friendship school buildings to Myanmar per year

The first China-Myanmar friendship school opened on October 21, 2016 in Myanmar’s Bago. [Photo: CRI Online] China has planned to donate 10 friendship schools per year to Myanmar worth about 10 million yuan, Tian Shanting, Chinese Cultural Counselor to Myanmar told an inauguration ceremony of second China-Myanmar friendship school building Friday. The school building was built in a village in Pwint Phyu township, Magway region. China also donated 10 million kyats to financially support for scholarship. Tian said that China and Myanmar has been cooperating and exchanging in not only basic education but also higher education sectors. China will continue to cooperate in vocational education sector of Myanmar, he added. Daw Khine Yin Mon, headmistress of the school, said the new school building makes the students to learn in a better condition for health. First China-Myanmar friendship school building was inaugurated in Shwekyin, Bago region in late October along with a program of China-Myanmr friendship scholarship and stipend to support the education development.