Interest in China grows in Bangladesh
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DHAKA, Jan. 27 (Xinhuanet) — Dhaka University, the biggest university in Bangladesh, has organized the Chinese Spring Festival Culture Week to celebrate the Chinese lunar new year, which falls on Jan. 29 this year.
The culture week, spanning from Jan. 23 to 27, featured a series of activities including World Heritage Sites in China, photo exhibition, documentary film show, Chinese handicraft exhibition and Chinese painting exhibition.
Addressing the closing ceremony Friday, Liu Sanzhen, culture council or of the Chinese embassy in Bangladesh, briefed the audience on the history of Chinese spring festival.
Liu said China and Bangladesh enjoyed long-term friendship, expressing hope that the culture week could be an opportunity for Bangladeshi people to know more about China.
Faiz, vice chancellor of Dhaka University, said at the same function that Chinese language is a great language, which is also a language of a great nation. “I hope I can speak Chinese,” he said.
Faiz said China is a fast developing country, and Bangladesh can learn a lot from China. “In the areas of science, technology, education, a lot we can learn, but we are limited by the language barrier,” he said.
He hoped the students in the Chinese department of the Modern Language Institute could study hard to have a better grasp of Chinese.
According to Anwar Hossain, director of Modern Language Institute, there are 13 departments in this institute with above 1,200 students, out of whom 124 are learning Chinese.
Jula, a student from the Chinese Department, told Xinhua that his dream is to go to China.
Jula has learned Chinese for one year. He can speak some Chinese though not so fluently.
Walid graduated from the Medical College of Fudan University in China’s Shanghai. He studied six years in China from 1998 to 2004,which makes him a fluent Chinese-speaker.
Walid said he wanted to go back to China to for postgraduate study. “I want to learn community medicine and health management, because I want to work for the offices of the United Nations Development Program or the World Health Organization in Bangladesh after graduation,” he said.
There are also people who come to the Chinese Department to study only for a short term.
Asked why they study Chinese here, they said they are doing business with China, and it is very important for them to know some Chinese.
There are only two teachers in the Chinese Department, Yang Jinxiang, who is sent by the Chinese government, and Hossain, who studied four years in China.
Hossain said they need at least one more teacher here because two teachers are not enough to teacher over 120 students. He hoped the Chinese government can send another teacher here. Enditem
