"More and more people in the Middle East like to learn Chinese"
2023-01-19
At the beginning of the new year, the Secretariat of the Supreme Council of Iran's National Education announced that Iran would incorporate Chinese into the national basic education system from 2024. At present, Chinese language education is mainly carried out in Iranian universities and will gradually be popularized in primary and secondary schools in the future. According to statistics, by the end of 2022, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Tunisia and other Middle East countries have incorporated Chinese into the national education system, and 16 Middle East countries have opened Chinese departments in universities. People in the Middle East are enthusiastic about learning Chinese. "Hello! Are you Chinese? Welcome, warm welcome!" In Central and Northeast Africa, from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates on the Arabian Peninsula, to Israel on the coast of the Mediterranean, Egypt and Sudan on the banks of the Nile, and to Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria at the western end of North Africa, journalists can always hear greetings from local people in Chinese wherever they go. The cordiality arises spontaneously. In recent years, countries in the Middle East have paid more attention to strengthening Chinese education. Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, Saida, the main city in the south, and Zahel, the eastern city, have opened Chinese teaching courses for college students and the public. More and more people are interested in learning Chinese. The Iraqi people's demand for Chinese learning is increasing. Recently, the first HSK (Chinese Language Proficiency Test) Chinese language learning and testing center in Iraq, jointly operated by the Confucius Institute Headquarters Chinese Language Testing International and the Iraq-China Friendship Association, was set up in Baghdad, which will provide Iraqi Chinese learners with more convenient, comprehensive and personalized integrated international Chinese language education comprehensive service of "teaching, learning, testing, studying in China, internship and employment", which is widely welcomed by the Iraqi side. A total of 9 universities in Saudi Arabia have set up Chinese majors, trained more than 300 local Chinese teachers in total, and supported more than 1000 college students to participate in the international Chinese teacher scholarship online seminar. The Saudi Ministry of Education will add Chinese courses in 746 secondary schools in 2022. In Israel, the Chinese curriculum has entered some primary and secondary schools, and has developed from the initial 10 schools to nearly 50 primary and secondary schools. In the United Arab Emirates, 158 primary and secondary schools and kindergartens have offered Chinese courses... The Saudi Arabian News recently published an article entitled "Saudi people regard Chinese as the" language of the future ", which said:" Learning Chinese has become an international trend, and Chinese will become a language with great influence in the future... Language is the best key to understand a country, and more and more students have learned a colorful, three-dimensional and comprehensive China through learning Chinese. " Naslin, director of the Oriental Department of the Iranian Academy of Arts, told our reporter that more and more young people in Iran have identified Chinese as an important foreign language to learn. "We have Chinese departments in many universities, and many new students choose Chinese majors every semester. They believe that learning Chinese well means it is easier to find a good job in the future. "China is a great country, and more and more Israelis want to know China." In many schools in Egypt, Chinese teachers not only teach students Chinese, but also teach them Chinese paper-cut, calligraphy and painting, and cooking skills, so that students can experience more comprehensively
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