Minister of Education Chen Zhensheng announced that when students are promoted to middle school, they can take high -level Chinese in Chinese grades, instead of losing their opportunities for electives because the overall scores of the primary school departure exam have not reached the standard.This inspires those who care about Chinese religion.
The author hopes that this is the beginning of actively promoting Chinese education.
The author published on August 19 this year published an article in Lianhe Zaobao and Speech Study in China as a major trend in the international trend. In addition to economic strength, China's rise has gradually appeared in international diplomatic relations, enterprises externally investing, science and technology, academic academics, Cultural soft power and other fields.Recently, the hot black myth: Goku is a high -quality ultimate work in the history of Chinese game history. It breaks a number of sales records in the international game market, broaden overseas audiences' perception of Chinese excellent traditional culture, and highlight the soft power of Chinese culture.
In recent years, with the continuous deepening of the cultural and trade exchanges between China and Africa, the African continent has set off a wave of learning Chinese.Chile, Peru, Argentina, and Brazil in South America set off a new height after Xi Jinping visited Latin America in 2014.
Now, countries in the Middle East have also actively increased the proportion of Chinese teaching in the national education system.According to reports, from 2019, the United Arab Emirates has launched a Chinese language course in 100 schools in the country; in September 2022, the Egyptian Ministry of Education launched a pilot project, which used Chinese as a foreign language and included courses in 12 middle schools across the country; September 2023, in September 2023, in September 2023, in September 2023, in September 2023,The Saudi Arabia government includes Chinese as the second official foreign language into teaching courses; the Iranian Ministry of Education also stated that Chinese education has been included in the national education system from this year.
Come to the Southeast Asian region that we are more concerned about.With the rise of China on the global stage, more and more Southeast Asian students have chosen to study in mainland China and Taiwan.In addition to the practical factors that are much lower than Western universities, other benefits include universities in mainland China have high -quality educational resources, especially in science and technology, engineering, and e -commerce; there are opportunities for Chinese cultural exchanges and experience;Learn about economic cooperation and business opportunities in mainland China.In addition, according to the statistics of the Ministry of Education of Taiwan, Southeast Asian countries have become an important overseas market for Taiwan's enrollment. Recently, higher education exhibitions and enrollment promotion activities sponsored by Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam have unprecedented local participation.
China's rise has formed a huge driving force for Chinese education.The "Chinese World" will grow in the world, especially Africa, South America, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and other regions.If Southern Asia, including Singapore, wants to balance Sino -US relations and does not choose border stations, if you want to communicate with China and the United States in an all -round way, in addition to English, we must try to strengthen the ability to control Chinese language, far more than the current Chinese language.The level.
We now not only need a few political elites that can master Chinese language, only formulate policies and management diplomatic relations with China. We also need to from entrepreneurs and senior management to academic and research, technology and innovation, production and operations.In the fields of culture and art, cultivate more talents who are proficient in Chinese, so that Chinese education is popularized, so as to comprehensively cope with and connect the rise of the Chinese world.
Similarly, as India and Indonesia's regional influence is becoming increasingly significant, our India and Malay compatriots must also strengthen the ability of Tomimir Chinese and Malay Chinese.Otherwise, on the time of fake, Singapore has always been proud of bilingual advantages.
We need to start layout and prepare, including Chinese policy, because language learning requires long -term training.We should start to gradually strengthen the popularity of Chinese education, encourage more social application scenarios, cultivate a rich Chinese organic ecological environment, to achieve the true bilingual language policy, and more confident to face the future rise of the Chinese worldEssence
The author is a guest professor at the National University of Singapore and Nanyang University of Technology
