The opening ceremony of the Workshop is held on the Zhongbei Campus.
On July 12, the opening ceremony of the 2015 In-service Training Workshop for Confucius Institute Directors was held on the Zhongbei Campus. Thirty-six Confucius Institute directors from 21 countries gathered at ECNU to celebrate and learn about Chinese culture, as well as exchange wisdom gleaned from their experiences running Confucius Institutes.
Tong Shijun delivers a welcome speech.
Ren Youqun presides over the opening ceremony.
Xu Jialu, Vice Chairman of the 9th and 10th Standing Committee of the National People's Congress，Madame Xu Lin, Director-General of Hanban, Su Ming, Director of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, Tong Shijun, Chairman of ECNU’s University Council, and Jiang Feng, Chairman of the University Council at the Shanghai Foreign Studies University, attended the ceremony. Ren Youqun, Vice President & Vice Chairman of ECNU’s University Council, presided over the ceremony.
Madame Xu Lin emphasizes the importance of Confucius Institutes in her speech.
Su Ming wishes the Workshop a great success.
A CI director expresses his views.
In her speech, Madame Xu Lin emphasized the importance of Confucius Institutes (CI) in various countries and regions being developed with measures adapted to local conditions. She expressed the hope the CI Directors would be open to exchanging their views on running Confucius Institutes. She also encouraged participants to immerse themselves in various aspects of Chinese culture while attending the Workshop, in order to foster new ways to better develop Confucius Institutes.
On behalf of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, Su Ming detailed and lauded the achievement that ECNU had made in promoting Chinese Language teaching internationally. He wished the Workshop a great success as an important platform for CI Directors’ to communicate with one another and develop their ability to effect positive change as administrators.
Xu Jialu makes a lecture.
As noted in Tong Shijun’s speech, which was delivered at the ceremony, ECNU has founded eight Confucius Institutes with universities and institutions in the United States and Europe since 2005. Furthermore, ECNU has established the Global Center for Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages, and the International Teachers’ College of Chinese Language and Culture, successively. This marks the third time that ECNU has held an In-service Training Workshop for Confucius Institute Directors. It symbolizes the significant work ECNU has undertaken in spreading Chinese language and culture, and serves as encouragement for the University to dedicate more work towards the development of Confucius Institutes in the future.
Participants of the opening ceremony pose for a group photo.
Sponsored by the Confucius Institute Headquarters/Hanban and hosted by ECNU, the nine-day Workshop featured courses with topics designed to cater to the CI Directors’ interests, including: Chinese Folk Culture, Economics in China, the Chinese-International Cultural Exchange, Traditional Chinese Medicine, etc. In addition to these courses, the Workshop also included seminars, symposiums with Hanban officials, and field visits.
