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China news, Xian, Nov. 13—Cao Guoxing, a senior official from the Ministry of Education, said that Chinese is becoming an international language, but there are still not enough teachers teaching Chinese abroad. From then on, China will train more teachers and volunteers to teach Chinese in foreign countries. He said these during an education cooperation forum held in Xian, Shanxi Province.

Cao said that currently 62 countries and regions have Confucius Institutes that offer Chinese language course for the foreigners. Cao said that China planned to build 500 Confucius Institutes before 2010. “Chinas growing international influence has attracted more and more people abroad to study Chinese,” he said.

China has sent 1,500 teachers and 2,000 volunteers to teach Chinese abroad, and the Office of Chinese Language Council International has planned to provide regular training for Chinese language course teachers.

中國新聞，西安，11月13日——來自教育部的高級官員曹國興表示，漢語正在逐步成為國際性的語言，但海外華文教師卻人手緊缺。今后我國將培訓(xùn)更多的對外漢語教師和對外漢語教學(xué)志愿者。他是在陜西西安舉行的教育合作論壇上做出以上表示的。

曹國興介紹，目前已有62個國家和地區(qū)成立了孔子學(xué)院，面向外國人開設(shè)漢語課程。他還透露中國計劃于2010年前在全世界建立500所孔子學(xué)院。他說：“中國越來越大的國際影響力吸引著越來越多的外國人學(xué)習(xí)漢語?！?/p>

我國已派出1500名教師及2000名志愿者，赴國外教授漢語。國家漢語國際推廣領(lǐng)導(dǎo)小組辦公室已經(jīng)計劃為海外華文教師提供定期的培訓(xùn)工作。