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Text Box: More News about China and Egypt: More scholarships offered by AL-Azhar to Chinese Muslims   The Grand Imam of AL-Azhar Mohammed Sayed Tantawi stressed his readiness to offer more scholarships by AL-Azhar to Chinese Muslims for studying in its institutes and university, noting that this comes within the framework of cooperation between Egypt and China.   In his meeting with the Chinese delegation under Chinese Minister in Charge of State Nationalities Affairs Commission Li Dezhu, the grand Imam said AL-Azhar said religious education concentrates on the noble principles of Islam Sharia (Jurisprudence) teaching. Tantawi pointed out that AL-Azhar meet the needs of those who seek knowledge and are keen to benefit from AL-Azhar sciences and curricula that comprise secular and spiritual knowledge.   Meanwhile, Egypt's Minister of Awkaf (religious endowments) Mahmoud Hamdi Zaqzouq met with the visiting Chinese Minister and his accompanying delegation and said that the enlightened Islamic call in Egypt lives in its brightest age under the unprecedented care of the state that does not spare efforts to ensure the stability of the society and protecting it with the sound religious awareness against the extremist thoughts that cripple its potentials and abort its aspiration towards a safe future. Text Box: Egypt    

 

 

Text Box: Text Box: About Egypt:   Official name Arab Republic of Egypt Capital Cairo Area 997,739 square kilometers / 385,229 square miles Population  70,000,000 Christianity 14,000,000 Language Arabic Currency Egyptian Pound (EGP)  

 

 

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Text Box: Text Box: Opportunity for Chinese to reach the Egyptian: China, Egypt sign agreement on establishing a Chinese university (April, 2005)   China and Egypt on Sunday signed an agreement on establishing the Egyptian Chinese University (ECU) in Cairo, the first Chinese University to be set up in the Middle East.   The agreement was signed by Chinese Ambassador to Egypt Wu Sike, President of China's Liaoning University Cheng Wei and Karima Abdullah Karim, the board chairwomen of Egypt's International Education Institution (IEI).   “The agreement will further enrich the cooperative relations between China and Egypt, which have witnessed steady development in political, economic, cultural and educational fields,” Ambassador Wu Sike said at the signing ceremony.   Cheng Wei noted that it was the first time for his university to cooperate with an Egyptian higher educational organization, vowing to make good use of the opportunity to establish a first-class university with the Egyptian side.   For his part, Karima expressed hope that the ECU would become a new model of cooperation between “two countries with ancient civilizations.”   According to the agreement, the IEI would be responsible for the infrastructure projects, such as the constructing of the teaching complexes.   The ECU plans to formally enroll 900 undergraduate students from the academic year 2006-2007 on the occasion of the 50 anniversary of the establishment of the diplomatic relationship between China and Egypt, according to the head of China's university.