Li Changchun, the fifth Confucius Institute at the opening ceremony was held in Beijing

WASHINGTON Confucius Institute at the opening ceremony of the fifth on December 10 evening at the Beijing National Convention Centre. Li Changchun, Politburo Standing Committee to attend the opening ceremony, and Confucius Institutes around the world advanced collectives and advanced individuals and excellent presentation of international Chinese language teaching materials, students watch the Confucius Institute at the show. Li Changchun warm congratulations to the award on behalf of, and encouraged them to sum up successful experiences, learn from each other, to promote Sino-foreign cultural and educational exchanges and cooperation, enhance the Chinese people and peoples of the world's understanding and friendship, promote the building of a harmonious world and make new contributions.
CPC Central Committee, State Councilor and Chairman of the Council of Confucius Institute Headquarters Yandong attended the opening ceremony.
Yandong that the Confucius Institute through an extraordinary course of five years, has made remarkable achievements have been standing at a new starting point. The exchange of the world's diverse civilizations, dialogue and the ideal of harmonious coexistence of human society, opening up China to expand cooperation with the international trend to strengthen education for the Confucius Institute has provided new opportunities, given a new mission. The future, we must continue to adhere to Chinese and foreign parties to build a total, condominium, shared principles, and strengthen support and unite together to promote the sustainable development of the Confucius Institute. Innovative mechanisms to integrate into the local community, close to the national demand for learning Chinese nation, so that a Confucius Institute to promote friendly exchanges and cooperation based on equality and foreign key bridge linking. To the teachers, teaching materials and teaching methods, focusing on strengthening the basic capacity building, efforts to enhance the quality of Confucius Institutes and level. To expand services, enrich educational content, better play the Confucius Institute in language teaching, cultural exchange, cooperation and win-win and so the positive role.
After the opening ceremony, from 28 countries, 33 Confucius Institutes have debut performances of students on behalf of a large medley of Chinese songs, sketches, "I learn Chinese at the Confucius Institute" and the Chinese martial arts, etc., and sang in Chinese classic love songs and country traditional Chinese love story "The Butterfly Lovers." Countries to participate in the training of Chinese envoys representatives also performed pop songs side by side on stage, "1234567." The entire show was filled with joy, humor, humorous atmosphere, a vivid display of national students studying Chinese language and culture of enthusiasm, show results of Confucius Institutes teaching, showing the blend of Chinese and foreign cultures, each other's gorgeous.
The annual Confucius Institute Confucius Institutes around the world to sum up experience and close communication, strengthen cooperation platform. From 96 countries and regions in 1400 university presidents and representatives of the Confucius Institute gathered to discuss the sustainable development of the Confucius Institute and Confucius Institute by deepening international relations, promote local economic development, social and cultural issues.
According to statistics, with the exception of the Chinese-speaking countries and regions, more than 100 countries available in the world of nearly 4,000 colleges and universities offer Chinese courses, the total number of people learning Chinese has reached 40 million. Worldwide, the number of people learning Chinese at an annual rate of increase of 50%. The world's major countries offering Chinese courses the number of primary and secondary schools, more than 4,000 United States, the United Kingdom over 5200, more than 1,500 are in Australia, Thailand, more than 1,000. The number of primary and secondary students to learn Hanyu, the United States has more than 16 million people, France 4.6 million, Australia 12 million, while in Thailand for more than 50 million people.
In order to meet the learning needs of an increasingly large Chinese, Chinese Confucius Institute Headquarters Hanban in 96 countries and regions have established more than 300 Confucius Institutes and Confucius Classroom 300. In addition, there are more than 50 countries, more than 260 institutions to apply. It is understood that in 2010, the Confucius Institute and Confucius classroom opened a total of 10,000 flights in Chinese courses, up to 30 million students.