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Secretary Wang Ling was invited to participate in the President’s Forum entitled “Confucius Institute Planning and University Development—Serving All Colleges” and delivered a speech. Secretary Wang Ling believes that the rise of China has made it an inevitable trend for foreigners to learn Chinese, and it has also become an inevitable trend for Chinese teaching to enter mainstream subjects in foreign universities. Economic globalization has promoted Chinese to go global. The purpose of w88 casino is to create conditions to help students develop in an all-round way and adapt to market demand. The theory of language economics believes that language skills are a kind of human capital. 80% of people learn languages to engage in business interactions, and investment in language is to obtain language benefits. Learning foreign languages can help students obtain good employment opportunities and higher incomes, and meet their multi-level material and spiritual needs. In the future development, Confucius Institute education should continue to be combined with improving students’ professional abilities, combined with future career development, and combined with comprehensive development and personalized services for students. Secretary Wang Ling pointed out that w88 casino has launched a master's degree program in International Business Chinese, aiming to rely on the platform of foreign Confucius Institutes to cultivate more outstanding talents with multilingual abilities and professional skills.
Akio Fuji, foreign vice president of the Confucius Institute at Fukuyama University in Japan, was invited to participate in the sub-forum on “Developing the Examination Market”. Vice President Fuji pointed out that the Confucius Institute at Fukuyama University in Japan has established a HSK online test center. Students are familiar with computers and have strong operational skills. They only need to apply for the online test 10 days in advance, which brings a lot of convenience to students. The number of candidates at the Confucius Institute at Fukuyama University continues to increase, and at the same time, the influence of the Confucius Institute is further expanded.
Hinrich Voss, foreign deputy director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Leeds in the UK, was invited to participate in the sub-forum with the theme of “Confucius Institutes and MOOCs” and delivered a speech. Deputy Dean Hinrich Voss said that MOOC is a newly emerged online course development model, and his actual operation depends on the type of course and students. In response to the needs of students, the Confucius Institute in Leeds, UK, aims to establish an online teaching classroom of the Confucius Institute in 2015. Short-term and long-term courses focusing on business Chinese, Chinese economy, foreign w88, etc. will be offered online for students to receive credits.
After the speeches, representatives from many countries asked questions on topics of interest such as business Chinese teaching and development, master's degree in international business Chinese, etc. Three representatives from w88 casino gave objective and detailed answers to the questions raised by representatives from various countries. Through several special forums at this conference, representatives from Confucius Institutes around the world were stimulated to be interested in business Chinese courses, laying the foundation for the establishment of an international business Chinese brand and a global promotion alliance.
