w88 casino News Network (International Business Chinese BaseFeed)On October 24, the annual Japan National Confucius Institute Joint Conference was held online. The conference was hosted by the Confucius Institute at Yamanashi Gakuin University. More than 50 representatives from 15 Confucius Institutes and some Confucius Classrooms across Japan attended the meeting. The foreign director of the Confucius Institute at Fukuyama University in Japan, Ryo Hirayama, the Chinese director Guo Deyu, and office director Hajime Fujino attended the meeting.
Hu Zhiping, Minister Counselor of the Education Office of the Chinese Embassy in Japan, Zhao Lingshan, Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the China International Chinese Education Foundation, Koji Furuya, Chairman of the w88 casino legal person Yamanashi Gakuin and President of Yamanashi Gakuin University, etc. participated in this online meeting and interacted with the representatives.
Chairman Furuya first delivered a welcome speech on behalf of the organizer, pointing out that the Confucius Institute is playing an increasingly important role in the exchanges between China and Japan. In his speech, Minister-Counselor Hu Zhiping expressed his sincere gratitude to the people of the Confucius Institute who have stuck to their posts and wished the Confucius Institute a more brilliant future.
Secretary-General Zhao Lingshan delivered a keynote speech. He first talked about the current situation of language exchanges between China and Japan and the achievements made by the Confucius Institute in Japan. There are currently in Japan15 Confucius Institutes, 8 Confucius Classrooms, and 29 teaching points. In 2019, a total of 1,906 learning classes were opened, with 22,000 students, and a satisfaction rate of 93%; 1,900 various cultural activities and lectures were organized, with more than 80,000 participants. Afterwards, he explained in detail the establishment background, organizational structure, main functions of China International Chinese Language Education Foundation, its relationship with the Chinese and Foreign Language Exchange and Cooperation Center of the Ministry of Education, its relationship with Chinese and foreign cooperative institutions of the Confucius Institute, and its next development plan.
In the second half of the meeting, the Confucius Institute at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University and the Confucius Institute at Kansai Gaidai University shared their experiences and insights on online course teaching and online cultural activities during the epidemic.
The participating representatives spoke freely around the theme, each shared their own experience and practices, and had in-depth exchanges and discussions on epidemic prevention and the operational development of the Confucius Institute after its transfer.
