Chinese textbooks help with education in S. Sudan

CHANGSHA - As the new school semester approaches, more than 1.3 million copies of textbooks and teacher's guidebooks written by Chinese experts have arrived in South Sudan.

With South Sudan's national flag being printed on the upper left of the book covers and the China Aid label on the lower right, these teaching materials are part of the Technical Cooperation Project of Education in South Sudan. The project is organized by China's Ministry of Commerce and contracted to China South Publishing & Media Group Co Ltd, a major book publisher in China.

The publisher put together a Chinese team that developed a curriculum framework as well as compiled and printed Grade 1 student textbooks and teacher's books for English, science and mathematics with experts from South Sudan.