Rising interest: Premier Li offers to send 1,000 Chinese language teachers
Premier Li highlighted the need for a mounting collaboration in a variety of fields between the two countries.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on his visit to Roots International School.
ISLAMABAD:
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has offered to send 1,000 Chinese language teachers to Pakistan.
Appreciating the Pakistani students’ interest to learn the Chinese language during a visit to Islamabad chapter of Roots International Schools (RIS) the other day, Premier Li said he would continue the efforts to promote Chinese language in Pakistan.
He said China will also extend scholarships to Pakistani students for higher studies.
Premier Li highlighted the need for a mounting collaboration in a variety of fields between the two countries.
RIS is one of the leading institutions in Pakistan teaching Chinese language.
The chief executive of RIS Walid Mushtaq welcoming the Chinese premier said Chinese immersion programmes are among the fastest-growing areas of language education in different schools all over the world.
In this regard, RIS has introduced Chinese in the school to offer the students command over a different language.
For its language programme, RIS is affiliated to the Confucius Institute which is a non-profit public institution aligned with the Government of the People’s Republic of China aiming at the promotion of Chinese language all over the world.
Cultural exchange programmes and Chinese immersion programmes would progressively ascend the bond to an utmost level, Mushtaq said.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 25th, 2013.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has offered to send 1,000 Chinese language teachers to Pakistan.
Appreciating the Pakistani students’ interest to learn the Chinese language during a visit to Islamabad chapter of Roots International Schools (RIS) the other day, Premier Li said he would continue the efforts to promote Chinese language in Pakistan.
He said China will also extend scholarships to Pakistani students for higher studies.
Premier Li highlighted the need for a mounting collaboration in a variety of fields between the two countries.
RIS is one of the leading institutions in Pakistan teaching Chinese language.
The chief executive of RIS Walid Mushtaq welcoming the Chinese premier said Chinese immersion programmes are among the fastest-growing areas of language education in different schools all over the world.
In this regard, RIS has introduced Chinese in the school to offer the students command over a different language.
For its language programme, RIS is affiliated to the Confucius Institute which is a non-profit public institution aligned with the Government of the People’s Republic of China aiming at the promotion of Chinese language all over the world.
Cultural exchange programmes and Chinese immersion programmes would progressively ascend the bond to an utmost level, Mushtaq said.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 25th, 2013.