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TSUNEISHI GROUP (ZHOUSHAN) SHIPBUILDING, Inc. (head office: Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China), an overseas group company of TSUNEISHI SHIPBUILDING, attended the 2014 SCHOLARSHIP CEREMONY at the DAISHAN COUNTY TECHNICAL COLLEGE TSUNEISHI CAMPUS ( Zhoushan, Zhejiang, China) on the 4th September, and awarded scholarships to 12 honor students.

The TSUNEISHI SCHOLARSHIP, which started when the DAISHAN COUNTY TECHNICAL COLLEGE TSUNEISHI CAMPUS was founded, are designed to cultivate valuable employees who will be involved in the next generation of shipbuilding, and support honor students who have a desire to enter the shipbuilding industry. Students who excel at their studies and have good character are selected, and a scholarship ceremony is held once every year.

・TSUNEISHI SHIPBUILDING Co., Ltd.
　http://www.tsuneishi.co.jp/english/

・TSUNEISHI GROUP (ZHOUSHAN) SHIPBUILDING, Inc.
　http://www.tsuneishi-zs.com/en/

DAISHAN COUNTY TECHNICAL COLLEGE TSUNEISHI CAMPUS was founded as a branch of DAISHAN COUNTY TECHNICAL COLLEGE on Tsuneishi Shipbuilding’s manufacturing base in China, Xiushan Island, in September 2007 after the Daishan County Department of Education made a suggestion that it be opened, and is a fully residential college of technology that is equivalent to a vocational high school in Japan. The school is run jointly by DAISHAN COUNTY TECHNICAL COLLEGE and the TSUNEISHI GROUP, and the TSUNEISHI GROUP has fully supported the financing of the remodeling expenses for the school facilities (an old middle school building) as well as the outfitting with equipment and furnishings, training apparatus and materials, and also fully supported the tuition and accommodation expenses of the students. Furthermore, TSUNEISHI GROUP (ZHOUSHAN) SHIPBUILDING, Inc. dispatches engineers to help with training, and technical training is also carried out at the Zhoushan factory.

DAISHAN COUNTY TECHNICAL COLLEGE TSUNEISHI CAMPUS currently has 23 first-year students, 16 second-year students and 32 third-year students, making a total of 71 students studying shipbuilding technology and has a total of 248 graduates with the high employment rate of 95% since its founding in 2007.

■ About TSUNEISHI GROUP (ZHOUSHAN) SHIPBUILDING, Inc.
This shipyard is a group company of TSUNEISHI SHIPBUILDING Co., Ltd. (head office:Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture), located in Zhejiang Province, China. This shipyard has the capacity to build about 20 vessels per year, centered on the 30,000 ton to 100,000 ton class bulk carriers and container carriers, and builds also constructing tugboat.

URL：http://www.tsuneishi-zs.com/en/
Business：Shipbuilding
Established：December 2003
Employees:：Approx. 4,800 (as of December 2013, including subcontractor employees)
Location：Xiushan Island, Daishan County, Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province, China
Shipyard area：Approx. 1,200,000 square meters
Main facilities：Two berths, one building dock, two 700-ton gantry cranes, one 3,000-ton floating crane, etc.
Ship type of delivered：Bulk carriers, Container carriers

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