TAG-CI Participates in In-Service Training Workshop for Confucius Institute Directors

 

BEIJING - Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Confucius Institute (TAG-CI) participated in the first 2017 In-Service Training Workshop for Confucius Institute Directors, which was hosted by Confucius Institute Headquarters (Hanban) and organized by Beijing Normal University.

 

The workshop held in Beijing aimed at improving the quality of school management, promote the ability of foreign directors to perform their duties and to enhance their understanding of contemporary China and the work of Confucius Institutes. 

More than 30 foreign directors of Confucius Institutes from 20 countries attended the workshop in the presence of Chen Guangju, Vice President of Beijing Normal University, and Xia Jianhui, Deputy Chief Executive of the Confucius Institute Headquarters and Deputy Director-General of Hanban.

In his speech delivered on behalf of all attendees, TAG-CI Director Mamoun Abu Sebaa stressed the need to learn Chinese.

"We, as directors, need to learn Chinese ourselves and use this great language in our daily dealing with students and I thank Confucius Institute for all the effort and assistance," he said.

 

He also introduced the school-running experience of the TAG-CI, and hoped to enhance the understanding of China through the workshop and strengthen communication with directors from other countries, so as to jointly promote better development of Confucius Institutes.

 

"It is the vision of HE Dr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh that helped spread the Chinese language and culture in Jordan and we have more plans to expand our services," he stated.

 

It is worth noting that Dr. Abu-Ghazaleh received the “Award for Outstanding Efforts to Support Arab-China Friendship" by the President of the People's Republic of China, HE Mr. Xi Jinping in 2016. 

 

Meanwhile, Vice President Chen Guangju welcomed the arrival of the directors, and noted that the workshop, by taking advantage of Beijing Normal University's Strength in discipline and faculty, will provide a high level exchange platform for the foreign directors.

 

Deputy Director-General Xia Jianhui said that the current international order is undergoing profound and complex adjustment. Differences and misunderstanding between cultures are emerging while consensus and mutual trust are declining. Under such international situation and background, recognizing the objective existence of differences, respecting each other, pursuing inclusiveness and mutual trust, seeking common ground while reserving differences and sticking to equal cooperation may be the fundamental path to build a new international order of peaceful development.

 

Based on directors’ interest and job demands, the nine-day training workshop invited a number of famous experts and scholars from China and abroad to give lectures on Chinese education, culture, economy, exchanges between China and foreign countries, and folk customs. It also held thematic seminars on topics such as “The Function of Confucius Institute and Cooperation between China and Foreign Countries” and “Confucius Institutes and the ‘Belt and Road’”, and organized economic, social and cultural trips including visiting “Baidu” and the Capital Museum.