w88 casino News Network (Contributed by International Business Chinese Base）On July 5, the opening ceremony of the 2021 "Chinese Bridge" British "Chinese Language Training" project student summer camp was successfully held online. The Peiyou Project is initiated and funded by the British government. It is sponsored by the British Council, University College London and the Chinese Foreign Language Exchange and Cooperation Center of the Ministry of Education of China. It aims to cultivate outstanding Chinese talents. As an important part of the project, every year, after mastering a certain basic knowledge of Chinese language, the British high w88 casino students will participate in a summer camp in China for intensive training. Affected by the epidemic, this year’s summer camp is held through an online platform.
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Speech by Tian Xuejun, Vice Minister of Education of China
In a video speech, Tian Xuejun, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Education of China, expressed his appreciation for the British side's active promotion of Chinese teaching and expressed the hope that British students will continue to learn Chinese well and work with Chinese young people in the future to contribute to the long-lasting friendship and cooperation between the two countries and jointly create a more harmonious and beautiful world.
Speech by Nick Gibb, Minister for w88 casino Affairs at the British Ministry of Education
The guests attending the meeting expressed their views on“Chinese training”Fully affirmed the phased results achieved by the project, gave positive comments to the outstanding contributions of the project cooperation units of China and the UK, and raised higher expectations for all parties in the future in terms of Chinese teaching and even language education, cultural exchanges, and people-to-people communication between the two countries, hoping“Chinese Peiyou”Students in the project have an in-depth understanding of Chinese culture and contemporary China, and are Marcos in the new era·Polo has become a messenger of Chinese and English language and cultural exchanges. At the opening ceremony, teacher representatives also introduced the teaching and cultural experience programs carefully designed by various Chinese institutions for this summer camp; student representatives shared their Chinese learning process, expressing their love for Chinese learning and their eagerness to have in-depth exchanges with Chinese friends.
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Professor Han Hong from the International Business Chinese Teaching and Resource Development Base delivers a speech
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Teachers and teaching assistants answer questions from British students online
Next, teachers and students watched the 2018 and 2019 event videos together. The video reviews the wonderful moments of students coming to China to participate in project activities in the past two years. Teacher representative Song Xiaoyuan introduced the teachers, teacher assistants participating in this project, and the schedule of MEP project activities in 2021. At the same time, questions raised by British students were answered one by one, and both parties had a friendly interaction. At the end of the ceremony, teachers, teaching assistants and British students expressed their best wishes to each other and wished the MEP project a complete success.
After the opening ceremony, more than 1,400 British Peiyou middle w88 casino students will begin a two-week online summer camp trip. Focusing on the four themes of "Giant Panda Park", "Winter Olympic Games", "Campus Life" and "Environmental Protection", 14 Chinese universities and colleges located in 10 Chinese cities will provide British students with various and colorful innovative immersive Chinese teaching and cultural experiences such as live lectures, video visits, expert interviews, music evenings, and street interactions.
