BEIJING - MORE than 40 million foreigners around the world are learning Chinese, a senior official with the Confucius Institute Headquarters said at the organisation's fifth annual conference in Beijing, which ended on Saturday.
This year, 40 new Confucius Institutes and 97 Confucius Classrooms opened worldwide, while eight countries also joined the program, Xu Lin, the headquarters' chief executive and director-general of the Office of Chinese Language Council International, or Hanban, told China Daily. And more expansion is on next year's docket, she added.
'We expect to dispatch 2,000 teachers and 3,000 volunteers from China, train 10,000 Chinese teachers and 10,000 local teachers, and release revised Standards for Teachers of Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages (TCSOL) next year,' she said.
'A better benefits package will be offered to teachers from China. Tentative efforts will be made to establish a team of full-time directors and teachers for Confucius Institutes.'
Confucius Institutes are affiliated with the Ministry of Education and are committed to educating people worldwide about Chinese language and culture.
A total of 322 Confucius Institutes and 369 Confucius Classrooms have been established in 96 countries and regions. Among them, 303 institutes and 265 classrooms are already operating, Ms Xu said. -- CHINA DAILY/ANN
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