On March 27th, Hon. Kwamena Duncan (The Central Regional Minister of Ghana), met with Prof. Hu Liangcai (Director of CIUCC). They held talks on the activities of the Confucius Institute.
Hon. Kwamena Duncan expressed the hope that the Confucius Institute at University of Cape Coast (CIUCC) could help introduce investments in food processing and garbage collection and hoped to work with CIUCC to establish a larger Chinese training center in the Central Region.
Prof. Hu said that the Confucius Institute is willing to contribute to the promotion of economic and trade exchanges between China and Ghana, while he made some advancements for CIUCC’s development in Central Region including the establishment of a Chinese Training Center for Officers‘; to hold lectures about urban culture; to open a Local Chinese Teacher Training Center in Central Region and to add Chinese language teaching into the Ghanaian language education system.
This is the first time that Confucius Institute of University of Cape Coast has held a formal meeting with government officials of the Central Region. The two sides have reached consensus on many aspects and laid a good foundation for the future activities of Confucius Institute.