On December 13, 2023, the Chinese Embassy in Sierra Leone held the 2023 Ambassador Bursary Award Ceremony. Ambassador Wang Qing, Minister of Basic And Senior Secondary Education, Mr. Conrad Sackey (MBSSE), Deputy Minister of Gender and Children's Affairs Mr. Hindowa Buakai Bindi and others attended the meeting.

Ambassador Wang Qing congratulated the primary and secondary students who received bursary from the embassy this year, reviewed the new progress of cooperation between China and Sierra Leone in the fields of education, human capital development and other fields in recent years, and expressed that China is willing to strengthen educational cooperation with Sierra Leone to enhance the well-being of children, make more contributions to the China-Africa community with a shared future.

Minister Sakey and Deputy Minister Bindi thanked China for its long-term strong support for education development and children's undertakings in Sierra Leone, and expressed that Sierra Leone is willing to strengthen the traditional ties of friendship with China and promote new progress in friendly cooperation in education and other fields.

The Chinese Ambassador Bursary Program will provide support to a total of 166 needy students in Sierra Leone in 2023. In their speeches, representatives of the sponsored students thanked the Embassy for its care and love, saying that they would be the inheritors of China-Sierra Leone friendship and the builder of China- Sierra Leone cooperation.