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ZTE set to transfer technology, strengthen people-to-people ties between Ethiopia, China Photo ENA

ZTE set to transfer technology, strengthen people-to-people ties between Ethiopia, China

Source: ENA

A Chinese business company, ZTE, said it has been offering capacity building training to Ethiopians in a bid to enhance technology transfer and strengthen people-to-people relations between Ethiopia and China.

ZTE country chief representative, Zhang Yanmeng told ENA on Wednesday that the company will offer training to 1,000 workers of the Ethiopian Telecommunication Corporation (ETC) on ‘Code Division Multiple Access’ (CDMA) network installations.

The company is already offering short-term training to more than 348 technicians at present, he said. ZTE has imported training equipment worth over 10 million US dollars for the same cause.

The representative said ZTE has been participating in telecom network installation activities in Ethiopia besides launching various investment projects in the country.

Moreover, he said, the company has been sending lots of Ethiopian professionals to China for training.

According the representative, close to 83 percent of the workers of the company are Ethiopians.

The Ethiopian government has been providing all the necessary support for ZTE to enable the company meets its objectives.

Furthermore, he said, the company has been offering training on Chinese language, music, and culture to Ethiopians for free with a view to improving people-to-people relations between the two sisterly countries.

The company, which operates in Asia, Europe and Africa, develops and manufactures telecomm equipment for fixed, mobile, data and optical networks, and interlink networks.