Tanzania students embrace Chinese-language studies

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania - For young Eglon Matto, Chinese language holds the key to his professional career in future.

"Practically, Chinese language holds the key to doing business," said Matto, 22, a third-year student majoring in chemical and process engineering at the University of Dar es Salaam, or UDSM, in Tanzania.

Matto is learning Chinese as an elective course at the Confucius Institute at the UDSM, established in 2013 under an agreement between UDSM and Zhejiang Normal University in China.