China's Citic Construction company on Monday donated 300,000 yuan (some $42,000) and $60,000 respectively to the Angolan Table Tenniss Association and Volleyball Association to promote the developments of the two events in the African country.

The agreements were signed by Executieve General Manage of the Kilamba Kiaxi project Under Citic Construction and Chairman of the Angolan Table Tennis Association Filomenno Fortes and a representative of the Angolan Association.

Addressing the ceremony, Filomenno Fortes, who was also Angola's former national champion of table tennis, thanked Citic Construction for the donation, which he said would serve as an impetus to the development of Angolan table tennis.

The money would be used to sponsor six young Angolan table tennis players for a two-year training program in the club run by Guo Yuehua, China's eight-time world table tennis world champion who is still the head coach of the table tennis team in China's Fujian province, and to hire Chinese coaches for Angola's national table tennis team.

Guo and his former teammate Chen Xinhua, also a world champion and known as a magician in table tennis, visited Angola at the invitation of Citic Construction, and the two veteran stars attended the signing ceremony.

Also speaking at the ceremony, President of Citic Construction Hong Bo said her company was determined to take part in the post-war reconstruction process in Angola, and the move to sponsor table tennis and beach volleyball events in Angola marked the efforts by Citic Construction to pay back to the Angolan society.

Citic Construction is the contractor for the Kilamba Kiaxi social housing project in Angola, dubbed as the largest housing projects under construction in the world, with a total investment of 10 billion dollars on a piece of land of 56 square kilometers, and the investment for the first-phase of the project was valued at some $3.5 billion.