[EDLING:1450] SW China university leads campaign to teach Chinese abroad

[Francis M. Hult]

People's Daily

SW China university leads campaign to teach Chinese abroad

Yunnan Normal University in Southwest China is leading country's campaign to 
train and dispatch volunteers to teach Chinese abroad, a dean with the 
university said Sunday. 

The university in Yunnan Province has sent 119 volunteers to teach in Thailand 
since 2001, said Wu Yinghui, dean with the university's Institute of Chinese 
and International Studies. 

It was appointed by the China National Office of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign 
Language in 2004 as one of the eight universities to train volunteers to teach 
Chinese overseas and has dispatched more volunteers than any other university.

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