International Chinese Language Education Should Grasp Five"Musts"
The essence of international Chinese education is to build a"Chinese language"bridge to China for all countries in the world,promoting cultural communication,exchange and mutual learning.To ensure its steady,healthy,efficient and high-quality development,efforts must be made on many aspects,but priority should be given to five key"musts":clarifying the responsibilities and mission of in-ternational Chinese language education;placing a high priority on the teaching of written Chinese;en-trusting local Chinese teachers with the primary teaching tasks in overseas international Chinese language education;implementing a"digital"transformation in international Chinese language education;and grad-ually developing the"Chinese+X"teaching model.These five"musts"underscore a fundamental princi-ple:international Chinese language education should be academically driven,with research at the fore-front,and should embody international consciousness,a global outlook,and a service-oriented mind-set.
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