cambodian official: cambodia-china cooperation will create a brighter future for cambodian students
2024-09-11
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[asean hotline] cambodian official: cambodia-china cooperation will create a brighter future for cambodian students
phnom penh, september 10 (xinhua) -- cambodian secretary of state for education, youth and sports vong longni said on september 10 that the friendly relations between cambodia and china have become stronger in recent years through strong cooperation in the field of education. the cooperation and joint efforts of both sides will create a brighter future for cambodian students and further strengthen the ties between the two countries.
the chinese embassy in cambodia held an event to celebrate the 40th chinese teachers' day. on behalf of cambodian deputy prime minister and minister of education, youth and sports han chunnalo, vong lonely attended and made the above statement. he said: "i regret that i did not learn chinese in the past, but i will learn it in the future."
wang wenbin pointed out in his speech that teachers are the foundation of education and the source of its development. since 2009, the chinese government has sent thousands of teachers to cambodia for 15 consecutive years. this year, the total number of teachers sent to cambodia reached 315, a record high. the teachers sent to cambodia traveled across the ocean with deep affection for the cambodian people, worked hard on the podiums of chinese schools, and cultivated generations of friendly envoys for china and cambodia.
chinese education has a history of 100 years in cambodia. at present, there are 57 chinese schools in cambodia, with nearly 50,000 students. more and more cambodian teenagers are studying chinese in chinese schools, cultivating a large number of chinese-cambodian bilingual talents, and making great contributions to the local economic and social development and china-cambodia friendly exchanges. the cambodian government began to offer chinese courses in 20 public middle schools across the country in 2024, and chinese education has ushered in unprecedented development opportunities.
wang wenbin hopes that the teachers sent to cambodia will be good disseminators of chinese culture, inheritors of china-cambodia friendship and promoters of china-cambodia practical cooperation. he said that the chinese embassy in cambodia will actively provide support and assistance for the work of sending teachers to cambodia, and is willing to work together with everyone to use chinese education as a bridge to write a new chapter in china-cambodia cultural exchanges and create a new situation of friendship between the two countries.
on september 10, chinese ambassador to cambodia wang wenbin (front row, seventh from left), president of the federation of chinese associations in cambodia fang qiaosheng (front row, seventh from right), and cambodian state secretary of the ministry of education, youth and sports weng longni (front row, sixth from left) took a group photo with representatives of teachers sent to cambodia. photo by yang qiang, china news service
fang qiaosheng, president of the federation of chinese associations in cambodia, said that with the all-round development of the friendly relations between cambodia and china, the use of chinese has become more and more widespread and has become a popular foreign language option for cambodian students. the cambodian government's formal inclusion of chinese into the national education system will help enhance cambodia's national competitiveness and play a significant role in attracting investment and developing the economy.
since its establishment in 1990, the federation of chinese associations in cambodia has taken the development of chinese education as its main task. through more than 30 years of efforts, it has cultivated a large number of young chinese talents who can read and write chinese proficiently. (end)
