Chinese government sends youth volunteers to Tunisia for Chinese cultural teaching

On Aprill 17, 2007 Jia Qinglin, Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, met Tunisian Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi in Tunis.

After the meeting, Jia Qinglin and Mohamed Ghannouchi jointly attended the signing ceremony of five bilateral cooperation documents, including an exchange document on China sending young volunteers to Tunisia.

China's first team of six volunteers, consisting of three martial arts volunteers and three athletes, were sent to Tunisia in February 2008 and returned on October 16, 2008.

Local people's enthusiasm for the volunteers led the Tunisian government to ask China to double the number of Chinese volunteers in the second team.

The second group of twelve young volunteers were from the Guizhou Province and arrived in Tunisia on March 19, 2009 and returned to China after their one-year term on March 18, 2010.

The third batch of 16 young volunteers working for Tunisia, selected by the Guizhou Provincial Youth League Committee, arrived in Tunisia on April 2, 2010 and returned to China on January 24, 2011. The volunteers included kung fu masters, table tennis coaches, dance teachers, and Chinese teachers.

Their duty was to promote Chinese culture in Tunisia for a year, serving at the Tunisian National Martial Arts Association, Table Tennis Association, and the Tunisian Youth Culture and Sports Center, respectively.