The acting Consul General of the People's Republic of China in Khabarovsk announced the growing interest in the Russian language in China

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Interest in the Russian language in China is steadily growing, said Chen Yongjun, acting consul general of the People's Republic of China in Khabarovsk.

Russian as a major is taught in 185 Chinese universities, more than 400 universities offer it as a general education subject, and more than 300 schools have included Russian in their curriculum.

There are more than 360 universities, schools, Confucius Institutes and Chinese language educational institutions in Russia, and the number of Chinese language learners exceeds 100 thousand people.

KHABAROVSK, September 5 - RIA Novosti. Interest in the Russian language in China is steadily growing, said the acting Consul General of the People's Republic of China in Khabarovsk, Chen Yongjun, during the Second Russian-Chinese Forum.

“In China, interest in the Russian language is also steadily growing,” he said during a session on multilingual education.

According to him, Russian as a specialty is taught in 185 Chinese universities, more than 400 universities offer Russian as a general education subject, and more than 300 schools have included Russian in their curriculum.

At the same time, he noted that in Russia there are also more than 360 universities, schools, Confucius Institutes and Chinese language educational institutions, and the number of Chinese language learners exceeds 100 thousand people.

“This testifies not only to the deep desire of the peoples of China and Russia for mutual understanding, but also to the growing demand for language specialists in the context of the continuous deepening of bilateral relations and the expansion of practical cooperation,” he said.