ULAN BATOR, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- China launched the Mongolia Panda Pack Project in the Nalaikh district of Ulan Bator on Wednesday.
Under the project, the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation (CFPA) will donate a total of 20,000 schoolbags to primary school students across Mongolia for the 2019-2020 academic year.
Inside the packs are 105 stationery items.
Liu Wenkui, deputy director of the CFPA, and Sainbuyan Amarsaikhan, mayor of Mongolia's capital Ulan Bator city, as well as Mongolian teachers and pupils attended the launching ceremony of the project.
"I hope that the gift from panda land (China) will help you all eliminate the shortage of things to learn and increase your motivation for studying. I believe that the project is opening a new bridge to further strengthen the long-standing friendship between China and Mongolia," Liu said at the ceremony. "Long live the solid friendship between China and Mongolia."
For his part, Amarsaikhan said, "Children are the future of the country. So the government of Mongolia and mayor's office of Ulan Bator have been paying special attention to children's education."
The mayor expressed his sincere thanks to the Chinese side.
During the ceremony, the officials handed over the bags and stationery items to 100 primary school students from the Nalaikh district.
"Thanks for giving such a nice gift. I will do my best to learn well," Choijamts Temuulen, a first-grade student of Nalaikh, told Xinhua.
