China worries too few foreigners learning Chinese

[Francis Hult]

Reuters

 

China worries too few foreigners learning Chinese

 

There has been a big rise in the number of foreigners learning Chinese, but still too few are studying the language, officials said on Thursday, worried this may affect efforts to soften China's global image.

 

China began setting up Confucius Institutes in 2004 to teach Chinese and they are now in 81 countries, but efforts to expand them are being hampered by too few teachers and poor teaching materials.

 

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