Overseas Chinese teachers: stick to the Chinese education camp and are committed to inheriting Chinese culture

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"The Chinese language is very popular overseas. As a descendant of the Chinese people, it is our duty to promote Chinese education." On the 10th, Ye Weiming, president of Asia International Education and Research Group from Malaysia, told reporters.

On the same day, the "2017 Overseas Red Candle Hometown Tour Hubei Jingchu Cultural Tour" sponsored by the China Chinese Education Foundation and hosted by the Hubei Provincial Foreign Affairs and Overseas Chinese Affairs Office was launched in Wuhan.

Yip Weiming, 48, is the fifth generation Chinese in Malaysia. He told reporters that his parents taught him since childhood that descendants of the Yan and Huang Dynasties should not forget their ancestors and should do their best to pass on Chinese culture. In 1995, he organized the Asian Language Institute.

Although he has encountered difficulties such as cultural differences, funding, teachers, and teaching materials, he has always stuck to the Chinese education camp. More than 20 years have passed, and the Asian Language Institute has developed into the Asian International Education and Research Group.

According to Ye Weiming, his group currently has 32 subsidiaries, more than 200 Chinese teachers, and more than 4,000 students; it has a Chinese language training college in Thailand and more than 200 Chinese language colleges in Indonesia; three years ago, its group cooperated with the Malaysian government to send more than 300 non-Chinese students to China to learn Chinese every year.

In the view of 66-year-old Lai Meiqing, language proficiency and cultural proficiency are crucial to people-to-people communication, and language proficiency should start from childhood. For many years, she has served as a Chinese teacher and travels to various schools to give lectures.

In 2010, she co-founded Thailand Qizhi Kindergarten with a Chinese friend, teaching Chinese, Thai, etc. She said that the "Chinese language craze" and "Chinese culture craze" continue to heat up, and she is very proud to be Chinese. The current number and ability of teachers in Thailand can no longer meet the demand. She hopes that China will send more well-trained teachers and provide unified textbooks to promote the development of Chinese education in Thailand.

" What a terrible thing it is for the descendants of overseas Chinese who cannot speak Chinese. "Liang Qing'an, chairman of the Chinese Academy of Yokohama, Japan, is an old overseas Chinese who has been engaged in Chinese education for nearly 30 years.

Now at the age of 72, he still sticks to the front line of Chinese education." He hopes to use his own efforts to enhance future generations' sense of Chinese cultural identity and sense of belonging to their ancestral country. " Liang Qing'an said.

A total of 15 Chinese teachers from Malaysia, Japan, Thailand, Spain and other countries participated in the 10-day cultural trip to Jingchu. During their stay in Hubei, they will go to Wuhan, Yichang, Jingzhou and other places to take exams

Li Xiaomei, director of the second project department of the China Chinese Education Foundation, said that overseas Chinese teachers have made outstanding contributions to the cause of Chinese education and hope to inspire their enthusiasm for inheriting Chinese culture through the "Overseas Red Candle Hometown Tour" (End).