China is assisting Zimbabwe too when it comes to education. It's running several training and developments programmes in the country. CGTN's Farai Mwakutuya has more from Harare.

From modern farming techniques to cutting-edge engineering and latest information communication technologies, China is taking a leading role in equipping African youths with the tools they need to change and develop their nations.

FARAI MWAKUTUYA, HARARE, ZIMBABWE "A number of regional vocational education centers and capacity-building colleges, which have churned hundreds of thousands of technicians have been established."

African students have also been offered once in a lifetime opportunities to earn degrees at tertiary institutions in China.

Allen Chimombe has just returned from a year-long Masters Programme in Journalism and Communications from Beijing's Communications University of China.

ALLEN CHIMOMBE, BENEFICIARY "To me it was quite an interesting study because I got to interact with other students from other parts of the world and I really wanted to have that international feel because my first degree I studied in Zimbabwe and I was looking forward to having international exposure and I must say I gained quite a lot as well as just being in another country that is growing fast technologically and in terms of its resources."

Allen was on a government-to-government scholarship, one of at least 2000 awarded across Africa every year.

ALLEN CHIMOMBE, BENEFICIARY "A lot of African students are benefitting from this sort of arrangement. It allows African countries to develop their human resources capacity by way of those scholarships, which ordinarily some of the students would not be able to meet the cost of the education, which we got in China."

The exposure came in handy for the social media and technology enthusiast.

ALLEN CHIMOMBE, BENEFICIARY "So just getting to learn about the new media technologies that are in use in China to me that was an eye-opener. I got to know the kind of horizons that you can expand even as a country in terms of investing in technology. It's quite different from what I learned when I was here. Some of the things I got to use the technology, things I only learned about in theory when I was in Zimbabwe."

He now looks forward to making his mark on his country.

ALLEN CHIMOMBE, BENEFICIARY "There is scope for me also to do consultancy work and with that humble contribution maybe I can change one or two things about our media."

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