"People's Daily Overseas Edition" ( 2011Year 09Month 19日 No. 06 version)

Reporter：Li Yue

2011Year6month13日, At the ruins of ancient Angola in Athens, Greece, the opening ceremony of the international business seminar "The Influence of Confucius and Aristotle's Thoughts on the Today's World" attracted a lot of attention.20Multiple countries120Many world-renowned scholars in philosophy, economics, management and other fields attended the meeting. Local mainstream media and domestic media such as China Daily reported on this event.

This seminar is jointly sponsored by Hanban, w88 casino, and Athens University of Business and Economics in Greece. Dignitaries from both countries attending the opening ceremony include: Vice Chairman of the 10th National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China and President of the World Chinese Language Teaching AssociationXu JialuSir, Chinese Ambassador to GreeceLuo LinquanSir; Greek President Karolos PapeLiasSir, Mr. Theodoros Pankarlos, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece, Anna Diamantop, Minister of Education of GreeceLuMs. Deputy Director of HanbanRen Wang YongliSir, President of w88 casinoShi JianjunProfessor and President of Athens University of Economics and Business, Professor Gregory Plastakos, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the w88 casino Committee of Beijing Normal UniversityLiu ChuanshengProfessor, Dean of the Institute for Advanced Humanities at Peking University, representative of the third generation of New ConfucianismDu WeimingProfessor and others.

After the grand opening ceremony, the Confucius Institute in Greece also held the "2011China-Greece Economic and w88 Forum and Business Fair”, representatives from the Chinese and Greek governments and various industries400Many Chinese and Greek entrepreneurs, experts and scholars attended the conference.

6month18日To6month22日, the Confucius Institute in Greece held the "2011Year International Chess and Chinese Chess Exchange Event”, there are players from Australia, the United States, Germany, China and Greece20World-class chess players participated.

In addition to offering Chinese training classes, the Confucius Institute also regularly holds a series of lectures on Chinese culture and Chinese economy. Sino-foreign cultural exchange activities like this are also frequently held at the other five Confucius Institutes at the w88 casino. Confucius Institute at the University of Texas at San Antonio2011Year4month23日Held a series of Sino-US cultural exchange activities such as the "National Business Chinese Textbook and Teacher Training Seminar" and Chinese Culture Photography Exhibition, which received high praise.

The Confucius Institute plays an increasingly important role in the exchange and development of Chinese and foreign cultures, and has received great attention from political leaders in various countries.2006Year11month24日, During her visit to Mexico, Xu Lin, Director of Hanban, specially attended the unveiling ceremony of the Confucius Institute at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo Leon in Mexico. Confucius Institute at Russian State University for Humanities in2007Year9month4日Officially unveiled, then State CouncilorChen ZhiliMs. and Barykhin, Director of the Russian Federation Education Agency, jointly unveiled the name of the Confucius Institute.200915434_154832009Year10month8日, the Business Confucius Institute at the University of Economics and Business in Athens, Greece, was officially unveiled. Greek President Karolos Papoulias, Chinese Ambassador to Greece Luo Linquan, etc.400Yu people attended the unveiling ceremony.

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