Cuba and China sign agreement to train cadres

Cuba and China signed a Memorandum of Understanding for collaboration in the field of public administration and business management in La Habana, on Monday.

The document formalizes the cooperation links for the training of state and government cadres of both nations. It was signed by Chen Baosheng, secretary of the Party Committee in the Government Academy of the People's Republic and vice-rector, and Mercedes Delgado Fernández, rector of the Superior School of State Cadres and the Government of Cuba.

The purpose of the Memorandum of Understanding is to stimulate exchanges in the sphere of teaching staff, texts, study programs and research among the institutions of both parties, Delgado Fernández told the press.

This instrument is an important fact for bilateral relations, and constitutes an unprecedented act since our Higher School had not previously subscribed documents of this type and with these objectives with no other similar institution of any country, she said. On his part Jorge Luis Guerrero, head of the Bureau of State and Government of Cuba, said that the mechanism will contribute to the application of the guidelines of the island's economic and social policy.

After the approval of these guidelines in the VI Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba, held in 2011, it was decided to carry out a preparation program for the cadres who are responsible for implementing these guidelines in the best conditions, Guerrero recalled. This idea materialized through the creation of institutions such as the Higher School, whose courses have already graduated 11,000 people and are carried out in all the provinces of Cuba with the aim of training managers, public officials and businessmen for the function they perform, he said.

As explained by the head of the Cadres Directorate, these courses include updated workshops, visits and exchanges in places where fundamental changes are taking place in the context of updating the Cuban economic model. The Memorandum was concluded within the framework of the official visit to Cuba by a delegation headed by the State Councilor of the People's Republic of China, Yang Jing. (With information from AIN and Prensa Latina)