On March 11, the "China-Africa Friendship" Chinese Government Scholarship Training Program for Advanced Study Students was held in our college. Professor Shi Aiping, secretary of the party committee of the college, and some teachers attended the meeting.

Yang Qizhi, Director of the Department of Agricultural Machinery, firstly introduced the background of the project. The project is to implement the commitments of the leaders of the Beijing Summit of the Forum on 2018 China-Africa Cooperation, further recommend China-Africa education cooperation, and promote cultural exchanges and popular communication. This project is under the responsibility of Jiangsu University. The training targets are senior African officials, technical backbones and agricultural machinery maintenance personnel. The courses are divided into nine modules. Among them, the Agricultural Equipment Engineering College of Jiangsu University is responsible for the teaching tasks of the four modules of farming machinery, harvesting machinery, plant protection machinery, and facilities horticultural machinery. Secretary Shi described the significance of this project based on the history and spirit of agricultural machinery at Jiangsu University. He asked each participating teacher to collect the  foreign original textbooks as soon as possible, to formulate the syllabus and English handouts for each module, and finally to ask for everyone’s opinions and suggestions on the project. During the meeting, Chen Shuren shared his experience of participating in agricultural machinery training courses in Zambia, and hoped that everyone can attach importance to this project and do a good job in the construction of courses and teaching materials.

Finally, Yang Qizhi divided the tasks and required all teachers to complete the corresponding tasks in strict accordance with the time nodes to prepare for the advancement of the project.