• Submitted by: manso
• International
• 02 / 15 / 2011

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2011.02.14 - 11:19:06 / radiorebelde.HAVANA, CUBA.-  China’s Ambassador to Cuba, Liu Yuquin, donated a collection of books on the history of her country’s over-one-thousand-year-old culture to the Institute of Fundamental Researches on Tropical Agriculture (INIFAT).

Most of the texts are in Spanish and deal with calligraphy, folklore and carvings, a specialist with INIFAT, Evelyn Gueishman, told ACN.

The diplomat gave the donation during a visit to this center —located in Santiago de las Vegas, in the outskirts of the Cuban capital— where she expressed her satisfaction at the large number of Chinese descendants working there.

Yuquin spoke with specialists at the center, the oldest of its kind in Cuba, created in 1904 as the Central Agronomical Station.

Its library treasures books by Cuban sage Juan Tomas Roig Mesa (1877-1971), author of books such as “Botanical Dictionary of Cuban Common Names” and “Medicinal, Aromatic and Poisonous Plants of Cuba.” (ACN)