Chiang Mai (People's Daily) - The Confucius Institute at Chiang Mai University (CMU) in Thailand held a “Set Sail” event on September 21 to celebrate the Global Confucius Institute Day to promote Chinese traditional culture.
Mid-Autumn Festival performance on Confucius Institute Day (Photos: Sun Guangyong/Peopel's Daily)
The Confucius Institute Day has been an important festival held by the Confucius Institute Headquarters since September 2014 at Confucius Institutes and Confucius Classrooms around the world.
On that day, 525 Confucius Institutes and 1,113 Confucius Classrooms (as of the end of 2017) in 146 countries and regions around the world hold a grand ceremony and various Chinese language and cultural experience activities, including Chinese language teaching open classes, Chinese textbooks exhibits, holding Chinese culture lectures and student art performances.
Thai students participate in cultural experience activities organized by the Confucius Institute at CMU
The Confucius Institute at CMU participated in the cultural exhibition activities of the International Seminar on the Belt and Road initiative and invited the Global Tour Group of Dalian University of Foreign Languages selected by the Confucius Institute Headquarters to come to Chiang Mai.
"China and Thailand will conduct more in-depth exchanges and cooperation under the Belt and Road initiative. The Confucius Institute at CMU will make greater contributions to cultivating more goodwill ambassadors who know Chinese and Thailand cultures well, promote deeper cooperation between the two countries and enhance greater people-to-people connectivity between the two countries,” said Ren Yisheng, Consul General of the Consulate-General of China in Chiang Mai.
Thai students participate in cultural experience activities organized by the Confucius Institute at CMU
"The Confucius Institute is an effective way to create people-to-people exchanges and an important platform to enhance friendship between Chinese and Thai people. I hope that the scale of Chinese teaching will continue to expand and we can make good use of the advantages of such comprehensive cultural exchange platforms and make it play an active role in showing the real China and promote the inclusiveness and mutual learning of our civilizations,” Niwes Nantachit, president of CMU, said in Chinese.
(Compiled by Zhang Jian)