Educational Exchanges Promote People-to-People Connectivity-Guangxi Builds a Highland for China-ASEAN Educational Exchange and Cooperation-Education Zone-Market Information Network

Educational exchanges promote people-to-people connections-Guangxi builds a highland for China-ASEAN educational exchanges and cooperation

Market Information Network 2021-12-30 11:58:35 Source: People’s Daily Online Comment:

“The study career spent in Guangxi has gained me a lot, and I have witnessed the in-depth cooperation between Guangxi and ASEAN countries in education.” Ruan Taiying from Vietnam has studied in Guangxi for many years. She has studied international business and said that there are more and more people around her. After graduation, students are engaged in trade and technological exchanges between ASEAN and China.

In recent years, Guangxi has given full play to its advantages of being adjacent to ASEAN, building an ASEAN-oriented international education exchange and cooperation highland, and continuously deepening international education exchanges and cooperation. Guangxi universities actively responded to the “One Belt One Road” initiative, and the quality and level of education opening to the outside world have been continuously improved.

Nurturing talents for the “Belt and Road” initiative

On December 3 this year, the entire China-Laos railway was put into operation. Zhou Qian, a Lao student from Liuzhou Railway Vocational and Technical College, was very excited about this road of friendship with shared destiny.

“The opening of the China-Laos Railway has inspired me to study harder!” In September this year, Zhou Qian and other 20 young Laotian people became freshmen in the railway traffic operation management major of Liuzhou Railway Vocational and Technical College. The opening of the China-Laos Railway has given Lao young people a promising future.

According to the person in charge of the school, in recent years, the school has strengthened the training of railway talents between China and Laos by recruiting Lao students to study in China and sending Chinese teachers to Laos for teaching. Last year, 7 Chinese teachers went to Laos and provided assistance to more than 200 local students for more than 3 months.

It is understood that in recent years, universities in Guangxi have focused on ASEAN and vigorously cultivated all kinds of technical and technical compound talents required for the construction of the “Belt and Road” initiative. In the past five years, Guangxi universities have helped Chinese-funded enterprises stationed abroad and ASEAN countries train and train medicine, agriculture, automobile, More than 13,000 person-times of technically skilled talents in scientific research, railway transportation and other fields.

At the same time, relying on branch schools, joint scientific research laboratories, agricultural cooperation experimental stations, traditional Chinese medicine teaching points, etc. established in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia and other ASEAN countries, all universities in Guangxi actively export teaching programs and professional courses to promote education Professional standards, talent training standards, laboratory construction standards and industrial technology standards, etc.

Innovative humanities exchange model

Not long ago, the Confucius Institute at Maha Sarakham University in Thailand and the Confucius Institute at the National University of Laos jointly held an online training for local Chinese professors in 2021. More than 300 local Chinese teachers and Chinese majors and Chinese education majors from the two countries participated in the training. .

Both Confucius Institutes were established in cooperation with Guangxi University for Nationalities. In 2021, despite the impact of the epidemic, the two Confucius Institutes innovated teaching methods and moved their teaching activities from offline to online.

According to Guangxi University for Nationalities, the Confucius Institute at Lao National University alone has trained more than 6000 students of various types this year. On July 30 this year, the Confucius Institute was approved to independently offer an undergraduate program in Chinese language teachers, becoming the first Confucius Institute in the world to independently offer an undergraduate program in Chinese language teachers, independent enrollment, training and management, and issue a bachelor degree certificate.

The Confucius Institute is an important carrier for strengthening cultural exchanges between China and ASEAN and promoting language exchange and people-to-people exchanges. At present, 4 universities in Guangxi have established 8 Confucius Institutes in Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Indonesia. Excellent teachers and volunteer Chinese language teachers are selected to teach Chinese and spread Chinese culture in ASEAN countries every year. In the past 5 years, they have sent a total of There are more than 200 full-time Chinese teachers and more than 600 volunteer Chinese teachers.

Guangxi also organized friendly exchange activities such as the China-ASEAN Youth Leaders Summit of Colleges and Universities, and hundreds of ASEAN parents of overseas students watching Guangxi, to promote Guangxi and ASEAN to better realize people-to-people bonds.

Broaden educational cooperation channels

In September of this year, the 2021 China-ASEAN Vocational Education Joint Exhibition and Forum was held in Guangxi. This is the sixth time that the event has been successfully held. Visit mutual trust and pragmatic cooperation.

In recent years, the education dialogue mechanism between Guangxi and ASEAN has been improved rapidly, and the number of international students in Guangxi has grown steadily. The number of international students from ASEAN countries exceeded 10,000 for the first time in 2019. At the same time, the ability to build think tanks for ASEAN universities has been continuously improved. The China-ASEAN Research Institute of Guangxi University has established 10 national research institutes and 10 permanent specialized research institutions, becoming the most important research institution for China to study China-ASEAN issues. Cooperation and development provide strong theoretical support.

Guangxi colleges and universities initiated the establishment of an international alliance of colleges and universities in the fields of think tanks, art, tourism, satellite navigation, railways, etc., which attracted many ASEAN colleges and universities to join. The resource sharing and co-construction of colleges and universities within the alliance has effectively improved the ability and level of joint training of talents. Among them, Guilin University of Electronic Technology used the Beidou satellite navigation system in Guangxi and ASEAN as an entry point to create the only domestic satellite navigation industry international organization “China-ASEAN Satellite Navigation International Cooperation Alliance”, and cooperated with many universities and enterprises in the ASEAN region. Established a joint laboratory. (Liu Yao Yang Linyu)

Editor in charge: gaoxuejing Liu Yuan