Thirty-seven officials of the Angolan Ministry of Justice and Human Rights have completed a training course given by a Chinese company on how to manage the Angolan national identity card system when it is introduced, Jornal de Angola reports.

The Angolan newspaper says instructors belonging to state-owned China National Electronics Import & Export Corp. taught the course in Beijing.

The report says the company has the contract to introduce the Angolan national identity card.

The contract entails the establishment in Luanda by March next year of a facility capable of issuing about 20,000 identity cards a day, Jornal de Angola says.