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UM5–Beijing: cultural and tourism cooperation

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This dossier follows Rabat’s Moroccan-Chinese centre for cultural and tourism cooperation studies and its documented activities.

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The centre was inaugurated at the Confucius Institute on 4 November 2026, according to Le360 and I3lam TV; its detailed work programme remains undocumented.

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Rabat: UM5 and Beijing inaugurate cultural and tourism studies centre

Mohammed V University and Beijing municipality inaugurated a Moroccan-Chinese centre for cultural and tourism cooperation studies at Rabat’s Confucius Institute on 4 November 2026, according to Le360 and I3lam TV.

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Rabat, January 2026; archive illustration, not the announcement. CAPTAIN RAJU, CC0 https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ ; resized. — CAPTAIN RAJU / Wikimedia Commons — CC0 https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ ; 31 janvier 2026, redimensionnée.

The ceremony brought together university and Beijing municipal representatives and China’s ambassador to Morocco, Yu Jinsong. Moroccan students performed Chinese cultural presentations.

Winners of a Chinese-language public-speaking competition received awards and a photographic exhibition on Beijing was presented. The accounts describe the inauguration but do not specify the centre’s budget or research timetable.

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