Cooperation: Students return to China after training in Suzhou, China

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As part of decentralized cooperation, Pointe-Noire has established a sister city relationship with Suzhou, near Shanghai, and three students have benefited from three years of training in China. They went to the agro-pastoral sector to receive training, in particular in new market gardening techniques. The three students are back. On June 30, they were presented to Jean-François Kando, Deputy Mayor of Pointe-Noire, in the presence of members of the Executive Office and the Mayor of Pointe-Noire’s administrative staff.

The Pointe-Noire Strategic Partnership Agreement was signed in 2016 by the heads of state of the Republic of Congo and the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping and Denis Sassou-Nguesso, which provides for training in the agro-pastoral sector, among other sectors. Students from Pointe-Noire are the first beneficiaries of the agreement, which is for a period of three years and can be renewed each time.
The students, two boys and one girl: Samantha Sita-Dumas, Charly Monguia and Paterne Makaya, are a good example for other students to follow and, most importantly, a job well done for the Mayor of Pointe Noire. The students graduated on June 4 in the presence of their parents.
Louis Gabriel Missatou, second secretary of the Pointe Noire Provincial Municipal Council, thanked the Suzhou Municipal Government and the heads of the Agricultural and Animal Husbandry College for their warm reception and the special support given to students during the quarantine period in the first half of 2020.
“As if to say to our authorities, first of all the President of the Republic, Denis Sassou Nguesso, for whom agriculture in the broad sense constitutes the core of his social plan, “Let us continue to move forward together”, Pointe Noire is already in vision, a vision for the future. Because if it had not been for the unexpected outbreak of the health crisis triggered by the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, another group of young students in Pointe Noire would have left to replace you and benefit from the same training”, said Louis Gabriel Missatou.
Samantha Sita-Dumas, on behalf of the shortlisted students, estimated that this training allowed them to consolidate their knowledge and develop new market gardening techniques. “At the end of the three years of training at the Suzhou Agricultural and Animal Husbandry College in China, the feeling in our hearts is one of recognition and joy. Thanks to our entire country, especially the Provincial and Municipal Councils of Pointe-Noire, its leaders and our parents, without whom we would never have gotten there. It will also lead us to broaden our relationship with the world through new experiences. We assure you that we will give our all and cannot wait to put into application the knowledge we have acquired to achieve the goals set by the Mayor of Pointe-Noire in terms of agriculture and animal husbandry, hoping that we can prove ourselves worthy of the respect and confidence that society has in us, and we firmly believe that to achieve this there is no other solution than excellence.”
The Deputy Mayor of Pointe Noire congratulated the trainees and pledged to support them in putting into practice what they have learned from the training.

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