Wang  Peng, executive director of Huawei South Balkans Region, awards a  Bulgarian student for her participation in Huawei's "Seeds for the  Future" global training program in Sofia, Bulgaria, on Dec. 12, 2023.  Chinese tech giant Huawei on Tuesday awarded Bulgarian students who  participated in two of the company's programs this year. Eighteen  students received certificates for their participation in Huawei's  "Seeds for the Future" global training program, and the top two of them  will have the opportunity to go to China for a week in January 2024.  (Photo by Marian Draganov/Xinhua)

SOFIA, Dec. 12 (Xinhua)  -- Chinese tech giant Huawei on Tuesday awarded Bulgarian students who  participated in two of the company's programs this year.

Eighteen  students received certificates for their participation in Huawei's  "Seeds for the Future" global training program, and the top two of them  will have the opportunity to go to China for a week in January 2024.

The company also awarded 50 outstanding Bulgarian students 2,000 euros (2,151 U.S. dollars) each in scholarships.

Wang  Min, charge d'affaires of the Chinese Embassy in Bulgaria, said at the  event that since Huawei entered the Bulgarian market in 2004, the  company has been committed to integrating the digital world into  people's lives and building an intelligent world in which all things are  interconnected.

"I believe that with the support of the Bulgarian  government and society, Huawei will provide more opportunities for  students, contribute to the development of Bulgaria and work hard to  stimulate relations between China and Bulgaria," he said.

Nikolay  Pavlov, Bulgaria's deputy minister of economy and industry, said that  the policy of his ministry was aimed at building a competitive industry  by introducing new technologies, innovations and stimulating innovative  companies.

Achieving this was impossible without the availability of qualified personnel in high-tech sectors, Pavlov said.

It  was one of the reasons for the ministry to support Huawei's programs  focusing on young talents in the field of information technologies, he  said.

Dobromir Dobrev, a computer science student at the Angel  Kanchev University of Ruse, was one of the students who was awarded a  Huawei scholarship.

"This scholarship for me first of all means a  huge gesture on behalf of Huawei; it means that someone cares about us,  someone sees that we put effort into our studies, that someone  appreciates us," he told Xinhua.