A ceremony was held at the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Ashgabat to present acceptance letters to the successful applicants for the Chinese Government’s scholarship programme. Forty-three Turkmen students received the documents, according to the IIC of Turkmenistan.

They will be able to study at universities in the PRC on educational grants provided by the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the PRC.

Ji Shumin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the PRC to Turkmenistan, congratulated the students and their parents on successfully passing the competitive selection process.

At the same time, the study of the Chinese language is expanding in Turkmenistan. It is being studied by around 1,000 students at nine higher education institutions and around 6,000 pupils at ten secondary schools across the country.

Currently, more than 10,000 citizens of Turkmenistan are studying at universities in the PRC. Around 350 of them are studying under inter-governmental agreements.