China awards 28 outstanding overseas students in southern U.S.

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May 052013
 

HOUSTON, May 4 — Twenty-eight Chinese students from colleges in eight southern U.S. states received an annual Chinese government award here on Saturday.
At a ceremony at the Chinese Consulate General in Houston, Deputy Consul General Li Guixi handed out the 2012 National Scholarship for Outstanding Self-Financed Chinese Students abroad.
The recipients came from more than ten colleges in southern U.S. states, and their majors cover physics, chemistry, optics, computer, environmental engineer and mathematics.
“The recipients are very outstanding Chinese students and many of them have papers published on professional magazines,” said Consul Zhang Yiqun.
For the year of 2012, the award, which was established in 2003 by the Chinese government, was presented to 489 Chinese students pursuing diplomas abroad, according to Zhang
“Overseas students are valuable human resources of China and important contributors to the country’s future construction and development,” Li said at the awarding-ceremony.
The award was aimed to encourage overseas Chinese students to excel in their studies and better serve their country in the future, he said.
“The award is not only a honor, but also an encouragement to overseas Chinese students,” said Wang Qing, an award-recipient from Tulane University. “We will continue to work hard and better serve our country after graduation,” said Wang.
From 1978 to 2012, the number of overseas Chinese students totalled 2.64 million. In 2012, 399,600 Chinese students went abroad to study. More than 90 percent of the overseas Chinese students are self-financed, according to statistics from the Chinese Education Ministry.[db:内容2]

Language schools help overseas Chinese maintain their identity: official

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Sep 302012
 

BEIJING, Sept. 29 — A Oriental-based education is really a fundamental element permitting The chinese living abroad to keep their national identity, the director of the office for overseas Chinese matters stated Saturday.

A Oriental-based education offers a spiritual outcomes of overseas Chinese as well as their ancestral land, stated Li Haifeng, director from the Overseas Chinese Matters Office from the Condition Council (OCAO), in a ceremony held Saturday to mark the inauguration from the new semester in the new campus from the Beijing Oriental and Culture College (CLCC) underneath the OCAO.

The state addressed the outlet ceremony, that was attended by Luo Haocai, former vice chairman from the National Committee from the Chinese Individuals Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).

In the speech, Li spoke highly from the role of Oriental-based schooling, stating that The chinese living abroad think of it as a “Root-keeping Project” or “Hope Project.”

The OCAO has lengthy regarded as Oriental-based schooling as fundamental and proper work. We have an elevated purchase of the sector and brought many practical stages in textbook research and development, teacher training and also the education of Chinese youth living overseas, and contains also given several types of help Oriental schools abroad, based on the official.

Zhou Feng, leader from the CLCC, also spoke in the ceremony. He stressed the CLCC would like to cooperate with Oriental-based educational facilities in most foreign nations and regions.

Based on Zhou, this year, the school invested over 500 million yuan (79.3 million U.S. dollars) to construct the brand new campus, which provides coverage for 14.6 hectares and it has the ground space of 68,353 square meters. It is made to accommodate 2,000 students, he stated.[db:内容2]

Children’s camping opens in Mongolia to advertise Chinese culture

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Sep 232012
 

ULAN BATOR, Sept. 21 — A children’s camping opened up Thursday in the Mongolian Chinese Friendship School here to focus on the basic principles from the Chinese culture.

The “Chinese Culture Park – Ulan Bator camping”, backed through the Overseas Chinese Matters Office of China’s Condition Council, and carried out by its Henan Province branch, came a lot more than 500 local students putting on yellow T-t shirts with printed words “Chinese Culture Park”.

Based on Wang Zijie, deputy director of Overseas Chinese Matters Office of Henan Province, the theme from the camping was “Five Ones”: learning one song, one dance, one punch, one painting and something bit of handcraft.

It might play an optimistic role in distributing china language and culture and marketing friendship between China and Mongolia, Wang stated.

Wang Fukang, charge d’affaires from the Chinese embassy here, wished the camping would train the Mongolian students concerning the extensiveness and profoundness from the Chinese culture, and enhance their Oriental abilities.

Since 1999, the Overseas Chinese Matters Office has positively marketed overseas Chinese youth summer time camps, according to that the “Chinese Culture Park” activities were introduced this year.[db:内容2]

China to boost overseas Chinese language education

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Apr 122012
 

BEIJING, April 9 — The Chinese government will expand overseas Chinese-language education to better cater for rising interest in China and its language worldwide, according to a speech by an official on Monday.
The Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council (OCAO) will cooperate with foreign education authorities to position Chinese-language education as a mainstream education choice abroad, said Li Haifeng, the OCAO director, at a meeting attended by overseas Chinese social organizations from across the world.
The OCAO will train more teachers for overseas Chinese-language education, striving to integrate it with local cultures and develop more online and multi-media teaching materials to meet the diversified demands of overseas youngsters, said Li.
Chinese-language education is an important way to inherit Chinese culture, the official said. The OCAO has trained nearly 17,000 teachers for overseas education since 2010, and has helped more than 270 overseas schools or education organizations improve teaching facilities.
In the next five years, the OCAO will invite 100,000 overseas Chinese youths back to China to participate in summer or winter camps and “seek their roots,” said Li.
Such camps have attracted more than 40,000 overseas Chinese youths since 2010, he added.