UAE’s Chinese learning covers 54,000 students

UAE’s Chinese learning covers 54,000 students

Abu Dhabi / WAM

China-UAE relations are better than ever before, under the strategic leadership of President Xi Jinping and President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Zhang Yiming, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China, told the Emirates News Agency (WAM) on Friday.

In an exclusive interview with WAM at the Chinese Embassy in the UAE, he added that “the China-UAE friendship is sweeter than Liwa dates and more fragrant than Arabian coffee.”

The growth in relations has reflected in all areas, from economy to people-to-people ties, said the envoy, explaining that “cooperation in education, culture, science and technology, sports and other fields is becoming a new driving force for practical cooperation between China and the UAE.”

Yiming underscored that the UAE’s Chinese language education programme has become the flagship brand of Chinese language teaching among the “Belt and Road countries”, and the Chinese community in the UAE has doubled in size since 2019.

54,000 students in 158

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“So far, the Chinese teaching programme in the UAE has covered 54,000 students in 158 public schools and is striving to cover 200 schools. I am confident we will reach that target sooner,” the ambassador