On 9-10 this month, the first International Conference on Chinese Education was held in Changsha, Hunan Province. The conference was held on the basis of 15 years of Confucius Institutes and 13 consecutive successful global Confucius Institutes conferences. That is to say, it should have changed the name of "the 14th Confucius Institute Congress in 2019" to “the International Education in 2019”. Fuqing Confucius Classroom teachers were also invited to participate in the event, at the 10th meeting, Fuqing Confucius Classroom again won the "2018-2019 Chinese examination excellent examination center award ". This is the fourth prize awarded to Fuqing Confucius Classroom ( 2008/2014/2017).In addition, the Fuqing Confucius Classroom has also won the "advanced unit" and the "advanced individual award" by the Confucius Institute Headquarters(Hanban). 
More than 1000 Chinese and foreign guests from more than 160 countries and regions attended the International Conference on Chinese Language Education in 2019, with 32 workshops and 1 professional forum arranged. More than 150 Chinese and foreign representatives spoke on the topic and more than 900 people participated in the discussion. No matter which workshop, or sit or stand, it's all over. The workshop covers important topics such as international Chinese education policies, standards, teachers, teaching materials, teaching methods, examinations, brand project construction, international cooperation and so on.
There are 550 Confucius Institutes and 1172 primary and secondary schools in which Confucius classes are distributed around the world; more than 2.8 million people study Chinese in the United States; and in South Korea, Australia, Indonesia and other countries, Chinese has risen from third to second languages. Chinese fever continues to heat up around the world.
"Chinese is one of the most popular subjects in second foreign language learning in Italy ," said Zhang Hong, president of the Confucius Institute at the University of Rome. Coincidentally, more than 5,200 primary and secondary schools in Britain, where Europe is the same, offer Chinese classes, with 200,000 students. A large number of British students Bob Cryan come to China to study and train through a number of language programs at the Confucius Institute, the president of the University of Hadesfield said. At present ,69 countries have integrated Chinese language teaching into the national education system. Behind the "Chinese fever" is China's gradually increasing overall national strength and Japan China's growing opportunities. Wu ni, a native teacher at the confucius institute at the university of Tanalever in Madagascar, said that with the deepening of cooperation between Africa and China, more and more Chinese enterprises are taking root in Africa ." There is a way to learn Chinese well "has become a consensus among young people in Madagascar and many African countries.
The Confucius Institutes worldwide provide a learning platform for international Chinese language lovers, but with the development of information technology, intelligent age and the expansion of cooperation between China and other countries in the fields of education, humanities, economy and trade, international Chinese education faces some new challenges and opportunities. Gu Chuanyu, vice president of the World Chinese Teaching Society, pointed out that the challenges brought by the development of artificial intelligence to foreign language teaching can not be ignored ." We can make full use of the Internet or artificial intelligence and strive to cultivate it.
With the deepening of economic and trade cooperation, the learning needs of countries for pure Chinese and Chinese culture are gradually changing to vocational, technical and skill education based on Chinese. Asian-African Confucius institutes conform to the trend, develop and design targeted courses of "Chinese Vocational Education ", such as training" Chinese skills",
"Chinese high-speed rail "," Chinese flight attendants "and other aspects of talent, explore and practice a connotative and sustainable development road of Confucius Institutes with Asian-African regional characteristics.
2019-12-13
Fuqing Confucius Classroom
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