Zhao Guocheng, deputy chief executive of the Confucius Institute Headquarters (Hanban), led a delegation to Yunnan University on Oct 28 to inspect its progress in becoming a Chinese language promotion base in South and Southeast Asia.

Yang Lin, Party secretary of Yunnan University, Zhang Li, vice-president of the university and other officials welcomed the delegation and accompanied them to Yunnan University's Belt and Road Research Institute and its South and Southeast Asia Chinese Language Promotion Base.

Zhao Guocheng (middle) visits Yunnan University's Belt and Road Research Institute.

Yang gave an account of Yunnan University's recent achievements in internationalization, saying that the university will make the most of Yunnan's location advantages and its own comprehensiveness through integrating and reorganizing various disciplines' resources. On the basis of its Confucius Institute and Confucius Classroom, it will build itself into an integrative Chinese language promotion base for international Chinese teacher training, education of foreign students, international Chinese teaching material preparation and publishing. In addition, it will continue to encourage a broad-based perspective by researching specific countries around the world and developing think tanks for wide-ranging analysis.            

Zhao spoke highly of Yunnan University's effort in constructing the base and said he hopes that the university will keep supporting it to serve the national Belt and Road Initiative and advance Yunnan's economic and social development.

Hanban delegation talk with Bangladeshi education students at Yunnan University's School of International Education. 

Zhao then talked with Bangladeshi education students at Yunnan University's School of International Education. He learned about their lives and courses in the university and encouraged them to take full advantage of its academic environment to learn Chinese well, saying that he hopes the students can help build a cultural bridge between the peoples of both countries.