{"id":55718,"date":"2019-12-21T10:41:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T02:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=55718"},"modified":"2019-12-21T10:48:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T02:48:56","slug":"china-aided-conservatory-starts-construction-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=55718","title":{"rendered":"China-Aided Conservatory Starts Construction In Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BEIRUT, Dec 21 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; Construction of a China-aided conservatory, with an investment of 62 million U.S. dollars, was started on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It is an important landmark in the cultural exchanges between China and Lebanon, under the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative,&#8221; Chinese Ambassador to Lebanon, Wang Kejian said, on the sidelines of the launching ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new conservatory, located in the town of Dbayeh, near Beirut, will be completed within three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ambassador said, China is always ready to share expertise and development achievements with other countries, through Belt and Road construction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The conservatory, covering an area of 39,000 square metres, will feature teaching rooms, a library, lecture and auditorium halls, as well as, a theatre, which can host up to 1,200 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The President of the Council for Development and Reconstruction, Nabil El-Jisr, said, the project will be implemented by China State Construction Engineering Corporation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This new conservatory conveys a message of support from a great country, keen on building bridges with all the other countries in the world,&#8221; Jisr said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bassam Saba, head of the Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music, said, this new project will give an opportunity to students, who want to pursue higher levels of music studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lebanese Minister of Culture, Mohammad Daoud, thanked China for its aid, while adding that, he was looking forward to further cooperation between the two countries.&#8211; NNN-NNA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT, Dec 21 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; Construction of a China-aided conservatory, with an investment of 62 million U.S. dollars, was started on Friday. &#8220;It is an important landmark in the cultural exchanges between China and Lebanon, under the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative,&#8221; Chinese Ambassador to Lebanon, Wang Kejian said, on the sidelines of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":55724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,300,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55718"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}