Promoting “Belt and Road”, HNU Develops Excellent Chinese Language Disseminators for Indonesia

On  the afternoon of June.16th, HNU held the opening ceremony and started  face-to-face  teaching for the master degree education program of Indonesian  Chinese language teachers majoring in TCSL(Teaching Chinese as a Foreign  Language), which is the first overseas teaching program of postgraduate level  hosted by China Overseas Exchange Association, co-organized by Hunan Overseas  Exchange Association, and organized by HNU. Presentat  the meeting were Li Zuyuan, Vice President of Hunan Overseas Exchange  Association, Wu Shali,director  of academic class office in Coordinating Agency of Jakarta, Indonesia, and Jiang  Xinmiao, Vice President of HNU. The ceremony was hosted by Shen Min, Vice Dean  of International College of Chinese Language and Culture.

Tang  Xiuli, Vice Dean of International College of Chinese Language and Culture,  extended a warm welcome to the students and sincere gratitude to the related  school agencies and Coordinating Agency of Chinese Language Education in  Jakarta, Indonesia. She introduced to the students their teachers and activity  procedures of the program, expected the sharing of the pleasure of mutual  teaching and learning between teachers and students, and hoped that the students  could  enjoy  their study and life in Hunan.

Speeches  were given respectively by Wu Shali, on behalf of the leading group, and Ji  Lishi, on behalf of the students. They expressed their sincere thanks to China  Overseas Exchange Association,Hunan Overseas Exchange Association and the  leaders and teachers of related agencies in HNU. They also hoped that the  students could  learn a lot and contribute to the Chinese language education in  Indonesia.

Vice  President Li Zuyuan introduced the general information of Hunan. He pointed out  that the exchange and cooperation between Hunan and Indonesia had  been greatly enhanced in recent years, education cooperation being its  highlight. Since the year 1999, a long-term beneficial cooperation has been held  between HNU and the Coordinating Agency of Chinese Language Education in  Jakarta. He believed that the students, as the key force active in the  first-tier of Chinese Language Education, shouldered glorious  mission and major responsibility. He hoped that the students could  take  the good chance to  discuss together  the experience of Chinese Language Education, understandthe  deep accumulation of Chinese culture, and promote  the  cultural communication and integration, so that both sides could  learn  from and complement each other, thus becoming thepropagator  of Chinese great culture and contributing to the development of China and  Indonesia.

On  behalf of HNU, Jiang extended a warm welcome to the students from Indonesia. He  introduced the history of HNU and the situation about the base of Chinese  education. He said Chinese and Chinese culture became amazingly attractive with  the promotion of China’s international status. “The Belt and Road” proposed by  Chinese government in recent years gave a historic opportunity for overseas  Chinese education and the global spread of Chinese. Among the countries engaging  in the initiative, Indonesia occupied an important position for its largest  population of the overseas Chinese in the world. The master degree education  program of TCSL was aimed to develop excellent language disseminators for  Indonesia, which was of positive significance to the inheritance and  dissemination of Chinese in Indonesia and the exchange of the culture, people  and language between the two countries. He indicated that having focused on the  development of Chinese education in Indonesia for many years, HNU made some  contributions on the cultivation of Chinese language teachers, the development  of Chinese language teaching material, the advanced study and training of ethnic  Chinese youths and the overseas expatriation of Chinese language teachers, which  gained widespread recognition among the Indonesian educational circle of Chinese  teaching.

Liu Zilan, dean of the Graduate Research School, and more than  forty Chinese language teachers from Indonesia attended the opening  ceremony.

As we know, this overseas education program is one of the four  master degree education programs of overseas Chinese language teachers initiated  by Chinese Overseas Exchange Association, which were firstly ratified  nationally. More than forty students were enrolled in the first recruitment and  all of them were Chinese Indonesian from India Hindustan, Bandung, Singkawang,  Batam, Makasar and so on, who were the front line Chinese language teachers.  This program is an important step for the transformation and updating,  standardization, normalization and professionalization of overseas Chinese  language teaching, which meets the strategic requirements of “the Belt and  Road”. 

The Delegation of Hanoi Normal University of Physical Education in Vietnam Visited Hunan Normal University

On  the afternoon of May 17, the delegation of Hanoi Normal University of Physical  Education in Vietnam, headed by its president Fan Chuncheng, visited Hunan  Normal University. Vice President  of HNU Jiang Xinmiao received them on the fourth floor of Red Mansion Hotel and  Tang Jianwen, director of Office of the International Exchange and Cooperation ,  hosted the meeting.

Vice  president Jiang extended his warm welcome to the delegation. He demonstrated  that HNU has attached great importance to international exchanges. In recent  years, HNU has formulated partnership with 155 universities and institutes from  37 countries including 7 universities from Vietnam. In the time when  China-Vietnam relations is healthily developed, HNU has paid more attention to  exchanges with Vietnamese schools. Vice president Jiang presented the current  enrollment of Vietnamese students in HNU and expressed his expectation for more  visits from students and teachers of HNUPE. He added that the two sides were  undergoing the discussion of  the  joint project of Master of Physical Education and there would be a more close  relationship with all-round and practical cooperation between the two schools.   

President  Fan Chuncheng of HNUPE showed his gratitude for HNU’s hospitality. He mentioned  that HNUPE has exchanged with China frequently after its founding. Many students  have been studying in HNU, and lots of teachers of HNUPR has studied in China as  well. President Fan deemed that China’s Physical Education has reached the top  level in the world with rapid development and has weighed a lot in health  development of teenager. So he invited students and teachers of HNU to pay  visits to HNUPE and discuss the Physical Education especially in Exercise  Rehabilitation to enhance  the  Physical Education of two sides.  

Both  HNU and HNUPE hoped that this visit could strengthen the friendship and  cooperation between the two.

Along  with the President  Fan  were Du Yingjun, director of the Office of International Exchange and  Cooperation of HNUPE, Du Mengxing, director of the Office of Graduate Admissions  , Fan Shixiang, director of the Training Office, Ruan shizheng, the director of  the Finance Department and so on. The heads of relative offices of HNU attended  this meeting as well.