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Article

26 Jul 2006

Author:
Xinhuanet [China]

China, U.S. cooperate to train rural teachers

China and the United States kicked off a training program for the country's rural teachers...The first group of 500...were from Yunnan Province, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Shaanxi Province, Sichuan Province and Chongqing Municipality...The [program,]...jointly sponsored by the U.S. coffee giant Starbucks and the China Soong Ching-ling Foundation (SCLF), mainly focuses on training for primary school teachers in remote, impoverished and mountainous areas in western China, providing them with up-to-date teaching skills and techniques, said Li Ning, secretary-general of the SCLF...Starbucks Greater China...will donate 1 million U.S. dollars to [train] 3,000 teachers in the…next four years.