On October 25, CUZ Vice President Yang Rongyao, accompanied by Bao Xiaofeng, Director of CUZ International Office, received a delegation from the State University of Zanzibar,Tanzania led by Dr Haji Mwevura Haji, Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University for Academic Affairs. A academic discussion was held on deepening futuer cooperation between the two schools.
The State University of Zanzibar (SUZA), the largest state university in Zanzibar Tanzania, was established by Act No. 8 of 1999 of the Zanzibar House of Representatives which was then amended by Act No. 11 of 2009, and further re-amended by Act No. 7 of 2016. The latter amendment has justified SUZA to merge with other Zanzibar higher learning institutions; these are the then Zanzibar Institute of Financial Administration (ZIFA), College of Health Sciences (CHS) and the Zanzibar Institute of Tourism Development (ZIToD). His Excellency Dr. Ali Mohamed Shein, the President of Zanzibar and Chairman of the Revolutionary Council is the Chancellor of the University. The University became operational in September 2001.
Currently, SUZA consists of seven campuses that are found at equally beautiful but different locations within the islands. Six campuses are located in Unguja and one campus in Pemba Island. Tunguu is the main SUZA campus located about 12 km away from Zanzibar town. The campus is actually huge and brand new decorated with green field that offers cutting-edge infrastructure of the World standard. It gives to students a local alternative to some of the world’s attractive learning environments.
The school's Education College has cultivated a large number of talents in Chinese and education for Africa. CUZ has established a good foundation of cooperation with SUZA. Since 2014, the relevant education department of SUZA has sent students to CUZ.
During the visit, Dr Haji Mwevura Haji hopes to further deepen and refine the cooperation between the two universities on the original basis, so as to facilitate the development of sino-foreign cooperative school-running projects and the establishment of overseas school-running institutions.