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The Confucius Institute at the University of Cape Coast (UCC) was officially inaugurated on Thursday at the Ghanaian coastal city of Cape Coast.

The institute was founded in partnership with the Hunan City University to promote Chinese language teaching and culture in the country after years of academic cooperation discussions between the two institutions.

Chinese Ambassador Sun Baohong said China and Ghana enjoyed a longstanding bond of traditional friendship and rapid development in cooperation in economics, trade, education and other fields.

She said the Confucius Institute at the University of Cape Coast was the latest development of this strong momentum and would make further contributions to cementing the bilateral relations.

She said the Chinese Embassy would spare no efforts to support the development of the institute at the university.

"As Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, I hope that the Confucius Institute at UCC will be dedicated to spreading Chinese language and culture, enriching the course contents, innovating management philosophy and cultivating high-end talents in Chinese as well," she said.

The Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast, Professor Domwini Dabire Kuupole, said the Confucius Institute at the University of Cape Coast was a positive addition to their stock and an enriching overture in a congenial dialogue among cultures.

Ghana's Minister of Tourism and Creative Arts Elizabeth Ofosu Agyare hoped the institute would become the window and bridge for cultural and linguistic exchanges between China and Ghana.

The President of Hunan City University, Professor Li Jianqi, appealed to Ghana's young students to learn the Chinese language, understand Chinese culture, science and technology so as to seek the intellectual nutrition that they needed.