Recently, the 2023 World Chinese Conference was held in Beijing, with the theme of "Chinese Serving the World, Openness Leading the Future". The Chinese side pointed out at the conference that Chinese is the language of China and the language of the world. It is necessary to give better play to the social service function of Chinese, support and encourage more international organizations to make Chinese an official language, and welcome more international occasions to use Chinese. China will continue to vigorously support international Chinese education, and provide strong support and guarantee for accelerating Chinese to the world and serving the world.
In 2006, the University of La Rochelle and Beijing Language and Culture University jointly established the Confucius Institute. At the site of the 2023 World Chinese Congress, Jean-Marc Auger, president of La Rochelle University, told reporters that there are 300 students from undergraduate to doctoral level at La Rochelle University majoring in foreign languages in Chinese, in addition, a total of 10,000 students in the university can take XiChinese elective courses.
China is developing rapidly. In the context of globalization, our student unions move around the world. For us, it is necessary for students to strengthen their knowledge of China and Chinese so that they can talk to Chinese, which will help them in their future careers. Jean-Marc Auger said.
Jean-Marc Auger is also the president and founder of the United University of the European Union, which is composed of nine universities in nine EU countries, including France, Germany, Spain, Romania and Cyprus. In his view, La Rochelle University can become a bridgehead for Chinese education to achieve greater development in Europe, and promote more Europeans, especially young people, to understand Chinese and learn XiChinese.
Zeng Ying, head of the Chinese Chinese Culture Program at Western Michigan University in the United States, said that in recent years, China's economic development has attracted global attention, and many local parents have begun to think that letting their children learn XiChinese will help them in their future career paths.
In the vicinity of Kalamazoo, where Western Michigan University is located, the Chinese Chinese Languages and Culture Program has established a variety of teaching sites. Since 2016, local public high schools have set up credit-bearing Chinese courses. According to their statistics, the number of students in the Chinese Chinese culture program at Western Michigan University has reached nearly 2,000.
Silva, vice president of the University of Havana in Cuba and vice president of the Confucius Institute at the University of Havana, revealed that the University of Havana hopes to open a bachelor's degree program in Chinese in the near future, and the University of Havana and Chinese universities can cooperate to establish an applied linguistics center to integrate multiple forces and achieve greater development.
According to the Beijing Evening News.