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Bahrain–China Relations
Bahrain–China relations refer to the bilateral relations between the Kingdom of Bahrain and the People's Republic of China. History On April 18, 1989, China and Bahrain formally established diplomatic relations. After the establishment of diplomatic relations, the relationship between the two countries developed smoothly. Bahrain Prime Minister Khalifa visited China in 2002. On March 29, 2021, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in Bahrain. Bahraini King Hamad hosted a banquet for Wang Yi. Subsequently, the Crown Prince of Bahrain and Prime Minister Salman met with Wang Yi in Manama. On the same day, Wang Yi held talks with Bahraini Foreign Minister Zayani. Both sides expressed their willingness to strengthen the connection between the "2030 Economic Development Vision" and the "Belt and Road" initiative and expand cooperation between the two countries in trade, investment, energy, science and technology, infrastructure and other fields. Finally, the two sides signed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manama
Manama ( ', Bahrani Arabic, Bahrani pronunciation: ) is the capital and List of cities in Bahrain, largest city of Bahrain, with an approximate population of 297,502 as of 2012. Long an important trading center in the Persian Gulf, Manama is home to a diverse population. After periods of Portuguese Empire, Portuguese and Persian control and a short invasion from the ruling dynasty of House of Saud, Saudi Arabia, followed by a longer invasion by Oman, Bahrain established itself as an sovereign state, independent nation in 1971 following a period of British hegemony. Manama has a history that spans over several centuries. First mentioned in Islamic texts as early as the 14th century, Manama remained a small trading port until it came under Portuguese Empire, Portuguese control in the early 1500s. In 1602, the Safavid dynasty, Safavid Persians expelled the Portuguese, and Manama became a regional center for commerce and Pearl#Pearl_farming, pearling. By the late 19th century, it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdullatif Bin Rashid Al Zayani
Abdul Latif () is a Muslim male given name and, in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and ''al-Laṭīf'', one of the names of God in the Qur'an, which gave rise to the Muslim theophoric names. It means "servant of the All-gentle". The letter ''a'' of the ''al-'' is unstressed, and can be transliterated by almost any vowel, often by ''e''. So the first part can appear as Abdel, Abdul or Abd-al. The second part may appear as Latif, Lateef or in other ways. The whole name is subject to variable spacing and hyphenation. The surname is used by Muslims and also by Orthodox Christians in Lebanon. It may refer to: People Given name * Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi (medieval writer) (1162–1231), Iraqi physician, historian, Egyptologist and traveller *Abd al-Latif ibn Muhammad Taraghay Ulughbek (ca. 1420–1450), Timurid ruler of Transoxiana * Ghabdellatif of Kazan (born ), khan of Kazan Khanate, 1496–1502 *Shah Abdul Latif Kazmi, known as Bari Imam ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bahrain–China Relations
Bahrain–China relations refer to the bilateral relations between the Kingdom of Bahrain and the People's Republic of China. History On April 18, 1989, China and Bahrain formally established diplomatic relations. After the establishment of diplomatic relations, the relationship between the two countries developed smoothly. Bahrain Prime Minister Khalifa visited China in 2002. On March 29, 2021, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in Bahrain. Bahraini King Hamad hosted a banquet for Wang Yi. Subsequently, the Crown Prince of Bahrain and Prime Minister Salman met with Wang Yi in Manama. On the same day, Wang Yi held talks with Bahraini Foreign Minister Zayani. Both sides expressed their willingness to strengthen the connection between the "2030 Economic Development Vision" and the "Belt and Road" initiative and expand cooperation between the two countries in trade, investment, energy, science and technology, infrastructure and other fields. Finally, the two sides signed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Confucius Institute
Confucius Institutes (CI; ) are public educational and cultural promotion programs of the state of China. The stated aim of the program is to promote Chinese language and culture, support local Chinese teaching internationally, and facilitate cultural exchanges. The programme is funded and arranged by the (CIEF), a government-organized non-governmental organization (GONGO) under the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China. The Confucius Institute program was formerly under Hanban, another organization under the Ministry of Education. The Confucius Institute program began in 2004 overseen by individual universities. In 2020, the Chinese International Education Foundation was registered and granted exclusive use of Confucius Institute's trademark, and began to operate Confucius Institutes under a brand licensing model. The institutes operate in co-operation with local affiliate colleges and universities around the world, and financing is shared between Han ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Bahrain
The University of Bahrain (), often abbreviated as UOB, is a public university in Bahrain. Established by royal decree in 1986, it has since become the largest institution of higher education in Bahrain, with three campuses ( Sakhir, Isa Town, and Salmaniya) and more than 30,000 registered students. The university comprises nine colleges: Arts, Applied Studies, Business Administration, Engineering, Health and Sport Sciences, Information Technology (IT), Law, Science, and the Bahrain Teachers' College. The university is a member of the International Association of Universities and the Federation of the Universities of the Islamic World. History The University of Bahrain was established in 1986 as a result of Amiri Decree No. 12 /1986. The decree resulted in the merger of two public colleges; the Gulf Polytechnic (previously established in 1968) and the University College of Arts, Science and Education (established in 1979). Campus The university has three campuses. Its main c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China Investment Corporation
China Investment Corporation (CIC) is a sovereign wealth fund that manages part of China's foreign exchange reserves. China's largest sovereign fund, CIC was established in 2007 with about US$200 billion of assets under management. In March 2025 the fund had US$1.33 trillion in assets under management. History As of 2007, the People's Republic of China had US$1.4 trillion in currency reserves. That year, the China Investment Corporation was established with the intent of using these reserves for the benefit of the state by investing abroad in investments that are higher risk and higher reward than government bonds. CIC's funding resulted from the state use of leverage and is therefore unlike most non-Chinese sovereign funds, which tend to be funded through state revenue from national resources like oil. CIC was capitalized as follows: (1) the Ministry of Finance issued bonds, (2) the Ministry of Finance used the proceeds of the bond issuance to buy foreign exchan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Investcorp
Investcorp is a global manager of alternative investment products, for private and institutional clients. Founded in Bahrain in 1982, the firm has offices in United States, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, India, China, Japan, and Singapore. Investcorp's principal client base is in the six countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council, but it also has a growing base of institutional clients in North America, Europe, and Asia. The group's biggest external shareholder is Mubadala Investment Company, a $229 billion Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund, which has a stake of 20 percent. The company's main activities include private equity, real estate, and credit management, and has $50 billion worth of assets under management, as of April 2023. Investcorp has 7 asset classes which include private equity, real estate, credit, absolute return strategies, GP stakes, infrastructure, and insurance asset management. History The company was co-founded in 1982 by Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China Machinery Engineering Corporation
China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC) is a construction and engineering company, forming one part of the China National Machinery Industry Corporation (Sinomach) group of companies. A specialization of CMEC is the construction of power projects in generation, transmission, and distribution. The company is present in Turkey with representative offices in Istanbul and Ankara. CMEC has operated in Turkey since the mid-1980s, and operations in the country accounted for 5% of global revenue by 2013. The total value of projects in Turkey amounted to 3 billion US dollars as reported in mid-2013 by the company with another 1 billion US dollars in project revenue set to be added to the total by the end of 2013. The work it takes on in Turkey includes the construction of a 600 MW supercritical thermal power plant, a project signed in 2007. Moving into investment, the company announced in 2013 the creation of an investment fund, based on its own equity capital and lines of credit fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xi Jinping
Xi Jinping, pronounced (born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician who has been the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Chairman of the Central Military Commission (China), chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), and thus the paramount leader of China, since 2012. Since 2013, Xi has also served as the seventh president of China. As a member of the fifth Generations of Chinese leadership, generation of Chinese leadership, Xi is the first CCP general secretary born after the Proclamation of the People's Republic of China, establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The son of Chinese communist veteran Xi Zhongxun, Xi was exiled to rural Yanchuan County, Shaanxi Province, as a teenager following his father's purge during the Cultural Revolution. He lived in a yaodong in the village of Liangjiahe, where he joined the CCP after several failed attempts and worked as the local Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary, party secretary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Secretary Of The Chinese Communist Party
The general secretary of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party ( zh, s=中国共产党中央委员会总书记, p=Zhōngguó Gòngchǎndǎng Zhōngyāng Wěiyuánhuì Zǒngshūjì) is the leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Since 1989, the CCP general secretary has been the paramount leader of the PRC. The position of the general secretary of the Central Committee was established at the 4th Party National Congress in 1925, when Chen Duxiu, one of the founders of the CCP, was elected as the first General Secretary. After the 7th National Congress, the position was replaced by the Chairman of the Central Committee, which was held by Mao Zedong until his death. The post was re-established at the 12th National Congress in 1982 and replaced the Party Chairman as the highest leadership position of the CCP; Hu Yaobang was the first General Secretary. Since the 1990s, the holder of the pos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Of Bahrain
The king of the Kingdom of Bahrain ( ) is the monarch and head of state of the Kingdom of Bahrain. The House of Khalifa has been the ruling family since 1783. Between 1783 and 1971, the Bahraini monarch held the title of hakim, and, from 1971 until 2002, the title of emir. On 14 February 2002, the emir of Bahrain, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, declared Bahrain a kingdom and proclaimed himself the first king. The king enjoys wide ranging powers, which include appointing the prime minister and the cabinet, holding supreme command over the Defence Force, chairing the Higher Judicial Council, appointing the parliament's upper house and dissolving its elected lower house. List of rulers Hakims of Bahrain (1783–1971) The Arabic title of the Hakim, as transliterated, was ''Hakim al-Bahrayn'' (). The Hakim also held the honorific title of sheikh. Emirs of Bahrain (1971–2002) The Arabic title of the Emir, as transliterated, was ''Amir dawlat al-Bahrayn'' (). The Emir also held t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belt And Road Initiative
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI or B&R), known in China as the One Belt One Road and sometimes referred to as the New Silk Road, is a global infrastructure development strategy adopted by the government of China in 2013 to invest in more than 150 countries and international organizations. The BRI is composed of six urban development land corridors linked by road, rail, energy, and digital infrastructure and the Maritime Silk Road linked by the development of ports. BRI is both a geopolitical and a geoeconomic project''.'' Chinese Communist Party (CCP) general secretary Xi Jinping originally announced the strategy as the "Silk Road Economic Belt" during an official visit to Kazakhstan in September 2013. "Belt" refers to the proposed overland routes for road and rail transportation through landlocked Central Asia along the famed historical trade routes of the Western Regions; "road" refers to the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road – the Indo-Pacific sea routes through Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
