In what has been applauded by key stakeholders, China has completed its first Political Party School in Tanzania, East Africa.
Reports also have it that it has taken in its first batch of students from six African countries. It was gathered that all of the political entities taking part have ruled their countries without interruption since independence.
NCNC gathered that 120 cadres from African ruling parties are attending the workshop at the US$40 million facility in Tanzania funded by the Chinese Communist Party.
According to official records as reported by local media, the construction of the Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Leadership School in Kibaha, 40km outside Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, was financed by the six ruling parties of the southern African countries. It was also stated that the additional support came from the ruling party in Beijing through its International Liaison Department, the bureaucracy in charge of promoting Chinese ideology overseas and inter-party diplomacy.
Reports have it that the school provides a platform for China to enhance exchanges with leaders as a form of “party-to-party” diplomacy.
It should be noted that in recent years, the party has intensified its push to solidify its political relations with African ruling parties, inviting hundreds of their officials on “study tours” to China each year.
It’s germane to also note that like many countries in southern Africa, Tanzania was greatly influenced by Maoism and the Communist Party during the 1960s and 1970s under founding President Julius Nyerere.
The Chinese Communist Party has set up relations with 110 political parties in 51 countries out of 54, as laid out in a white paper issued by Beijing at the end of the 8th Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Dakar, Senegal.
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