日韩精品久久一区二区三区_亚洲色图p_亚洲综合在线最大成人_国产中出在线观看_日韩免费_亚洲综合在线一区

Global EditionASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
China
Home / China / Education

Confucius Institute HQ regrets US university's decision to close branch

By ZOU SHUO | China Daily | Updated: 2020-01-20 09:23
Share
Share - WeChat
Children practice taiji at the Confucius Institute at the University of Maryland. [Photo/Xinhua]

The Confucius Institute Headquarters said on Saturday it deeply regrets a decision by the University of Maryland in the United States to stop hosting its Confucius Institute.

"We are strongly against politicizing normal bilateral cooperation in education and hope all sides can view Confucius Institutes objectively," the Confucius Institute Headquarters said in a statement, adding it would take necessary measures to safeguard its rights and interests.

In 2004, the University of Maryland became the first university in the US to host a Confucius Institute.

In 2018, the US Congress enacted the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019, which included a provision preventing organizations that hosted a Confucius Institute from participating in certain federally funded programs, the president of the university, Wallace Loh, said in a statement on Friday.

"After evaluating the impact of this legislation on the University of Maryland, it became evident that we can no longer host Confucius Institute at Maryland," he said.

In order to minimize the impact on the schools and communities that depended on the teachers provided by Confucius Institute at Maryland, the university will continue to support ongoing classes through the end of this academic year, he said.

The university has also been working with Confucius Institute Headquarters and independent local organizations in the Maryland and Washington area to potentially transition the Confucius Institute and its activities so there would be continuity of educational offerings for schools after it has separated from the university, he said.

Since its founding, Confucius Institute at Maryland had engaged in educational outreach by providing teachers of Chinese language and culture to kindergartens, primary schools and high schools in Maryland and Washington, as well as offering language classes to the general public, Loh said.

Over the years, such classes had provided thousands of K-12 students with the opportunity to learn the language and culture of what is today the world's second-largest economy, he said.

"The US-China relationship is of global and strategic importance. Amid the rising geopolitical, economic and cultural tensions, the university will remain steadfast in its commitment to engage responsibly with academic institutions in China, and elsewhere in the world, in order to help manage-if not solve-the vexing challenges of our age," Loh added.

There were 550 Confucius Institutes and 1,172 Confucius classrooms in 162 countries and regions as of December, according to Xinhua News Agency.

The HSK exams, a test of Chinese language proficiency organized by the Confucius Institute Headquarters, were taken 6.8 million times in 2018, up 4.6 percent from a year earlier, according to the Ministry of Education.

The Confucius Institute Headquarters had added 60 new HSK exam centers, and there were 1,147 in 137 countries and regions by the end of 2018, the ministry said.

Top
BACK TO THE TOP
English
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
 
主站蜘蛛池模板: 日韩视频在线观看免费视频 | 男人的天堂久久 | 午夜男人女人爽爽爽视频 | 久草福利在线视频 | 538prom国产在线视频一区 | 亚洲黄色第一页 | 日韩不卡在线 | 国产免费观看一级国产 | 精品国产一区二区三区久久 | 啪啪伊人网 | 老版奇米影视 | 免费一级片 | 热99在线视频 | 成人tv| 狠狠躁夜夜躁人人爽天天段 | 草草影院地址 | 加勒比色 | 中文字幕一区二区精品区 | 青青草国产精品欧美成人 | 国产激情一级毛片久久久 | 操欧美女 | 午夜精品在线 | 日本高清18xxxx | 黄色片免费在线 | 国产精一区二区 | 欧美一区二区在线免费观看 | 久久狠狠一本精品综合网 | 久久99国产精品免费网站 | 日日操夜夜爽 | 欧美日韩一区在线 | 日本不卡一区二区三区在线观看 | 久久1区| 亚洲一区国产二区 | 一区二区在线 | 嫩草影院永久在线播放 | 色男人综合| 亚洲第一激情 | 日本美女一区二区三区 | 亚洲网站在线观看 | 男人天堂av网站 | 在线日韩欧美 |