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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