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China news, Xian, Nov. 13—Cao Guoxing, a senior official from the Ministry of Education, said that Chinese is becoming an international language, but there are still not enough teachers teaching Chinese abroad. From then on, China will train more teachers and volunteers to teach Chinese in foreign countries. He said these during an education cooperation forum held in Xian, Shanxi Province.

Cao said that currently 62 countries and regions have Confucius Institutes that offer Chinese language course for the foreigners. Cao said that China planned to build 500 Confucius Institutes before 2010. “Chinas growing international influence has attracted more and more people abroad to study Chinese,” he said.

China has sent 1,500 teachers and 2,000 volunteers to teach Chinese abroad, and the Office of Chinese Language Council International has planned to provide regular training for Chinese language course teachers.

中國(guó)新聞，西安，11月13日——來(lái)自教育部的高級(jí)官員曹國(guó)興表示，漢語(yǔ)正在逐步成為國(guó)際性的語(yǔ)言，但海外華文教師卻人手緊缺。今后我國(guó)將培訓(xùn)更多的對(duì)外漢語(yǔ)教師和對(duì)外漢語(yǔ)教學(xué)志愿者。他是在陜西西安舉行的教育合作論壇上做出以上表示的。

曹國(guó)興介紹，目前已有62個(gè)國(guó)家和地區(qū)成立了孔子學(xué)院，面向外國(guó)人開設(shè)漢語(yǔ)課程。他還透露中國(guó)計(jì)劃于2010年前在全世界建立500所孔子學(xué)院。他說(shuō)：“中國(guó)越來(lái)越大的國(guó)際影響力吸引著越來(lái)越多的外國(guó)人學(xué)習(xí)漢語(yǔ)?！?/p>

我國(guó)已派出1500名教師及2000名志愿者，赴國(guó)外教授漢語(yǔ)。國(guó)家漢語(yǔ)國(guó)際推廣領(lǐng)導(dǎo)小組辦公室已經(jīng)計(jì)劃為海外華文教師提供定期的培訓(xùn)工作。