国际英语资讯:Ugandan president opens China-funded industrial training, production center_时事

国际英语资讯:Ugandan president opens China-funded industrial training, production center

WAKISO, Uganda, Jan. 15 -- Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni on Wednesday commissioned a China-aided industrial skills training and production center at Namanve Industrial Park in the central district of Wakiso.

Museveni said the 30-million-U.S. dollar facility is critical in fast-tracking Uganda's industrialization process, noting that it will not only provide skills to locals but also manufacture mechanical parts using modern technology.

He hailed China for its continued support in helping Uganda fast-track its economic development.

Museveni noted that the facility, which is seated on 15 acres (about 60,000 sq meters) of land, was the second of its kind China helps to build. The first was a food processing facility, which has been in existence for years.

Chen Huixin, Charge D'affaire of Chinese Embassy in Uganda, said the facility is one of the many significant projects arising out of the consensus between the two countries and a follow-up action of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in its consecutive sessions.

He said the center has five manufacturing workshops and an electronic, electrical and mechanical processing training building.

"These workshops will help to meet the demands of Uganda industry development. All these have been equipped with necessary furniture, facilities, mechanical equipment, instruments and tools, allowing 960 trainees to undertake training at the same time. A whole college and factory!" Chen said.