From December 16th to 18th, the Seventh Global Confucius Institute Conference was held in Beijing. The theme of the meeting is "Promoting the integration of the Confucius Institute into the university and the community". More than 2,000 university presidents, representatives of the Confucius Institute in 108 countries and regions, and the principals of Chinese universities attended the conference.

Liu Yandong, member of the State Councilor and Chairman of the Council of the Confucius Institute, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech. In her speech, she fully affirmed the achievements of the Confucius Institute's construction in 2012. In 2012, the 42 Confucius Institutes and 35 Confucius Classrooms were added in 2012. The total number of registered students reached 650,000. The professional teaching and management teams of Confucius Institutes of various countries have continued to strengthen, and multi -language textbooks and cultural auxiliary textbooks have increased significantly. "Chinese Bridge" Grand Middle School Students Chinese Competition and Chinese Cultural Tour, Tour, Tour and other brand projects have attracted nearly 10 million people to participate. Comrade Liu Yandong pointed out that the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed an important spirit of respecting the diversity of human civilization and diversification of the development of the road. The Chinese government will actively support the steady development of the Confucius Institute. It is hoped that the Confucius Institute can strive for a variety of forces such as government support, social participation, and folk promotion to combine themselves with the national education system in the country, combine with the future career development of students, and realize the co -management, sharing and win -win situation between China and foreign countries.

At the opening ceremony, 10 advanced Chinese cooperative institutions of the Confucius Institute, 26 Advanced Confucius Institutes, 4 Advanced Confucius Class, and 30 Confucius College Advanced Individual. Our school won the advanced Chinese cooperative institution award, and the Confucius Institute of the University of Vienna, Austria, won the Advanced Confucius Institute award. Pei Gaode, the president of the Deldolo Confucius Institute in Germany, won the Advanced Personal Award. President Han Zhen accepted the award of the State Councilor of Liu Yandong.

On the morning of the 18th, President Han Zhen delivered a speech entitled "The Scientific Construction of the Confucius Institute and the Connotative Development of the Chinese University" on the "Principal Forum" of the conference. President Han pointed out that the connotative development of Chinese universities should be high -quality, distinctive development, and is an open and international development. As a successful example of public diplomacy and cultural exchanges, the Confucius Institute enriched the connotation of the university and brought new development opportunities to the university. In the process of participating in the construction of the Confucius Institute, Beijing University of Foreign Languages ​​continues to practice the era mission of "let China understand the world and let the world understand China". President Han discussed the promotion of the connotative development of Chinese universities from the university's "positioning and characteristics", university's "international cooperation category and level", and "the benefits and effects of international cooperation". Get a warm response from the participants.

The conference set up 10 sub -forums, and the guests revolved around the "Confucius New Sinology Plan", "Confucius Institute Development Plan", "Confucius Institute full -time teaching seat", "Construction of Chinese Teachers and Chinese Teachers Training Base", "Confucius Institute Quality Evaluation" The issue of "Demonstration of Confucius Institute" and other issues were discussed. Ten Chinese and foreign deans to host the Confucius Institute in our school were invited to make a theme.

During the conference, under the active fighting of our school, the National Han Office agreed to host the Confucius Institute of the University of London. At this point, the Confucius Institute hosted by our school will increase to 18, ranking first in domestic universities.

Using the conference interval, the leaders of our school met with the National University of Moscow, the University of Moscow, the University of London, Asia -Africa College, the University of Barcelona in Spain, the University of Roland, Hungary, the University of Soefa, Bulgaria, the University of Dussertor, Germany, the University of Malaysia, and South Korea. The leaders of the Confucius Institutes and other cooperative institutions such as the university talk about friendship and future development, which further promotes the exchanges and cooperation between our university and these universities.

In addition, our school translated a large number of important documents for this conference, participated in the same passage of the conference, and sent 70 volunteers from the Chinese Academy and other departments to undertake the service work of the conference to ensure the smooth convening of the conference. contribute.

(Gong Jing at the Work Office of the Confucius Institute)