The China-Japan Language Education Seminar was successfully held on December 22, 2022. This seminar is one event of the 2022 International Chinese Language Education Expo, which is sponsored by the Center for Language Education and Cooperation (CLEC) and co-organized by Tianjin Foreign Studies University and Hokuriku University in Japan. More than 120 Chinese and Japanese language education experts and scholars from China and Japan participated in the conference via online. Prof. Ma Jianfei, Director-General of CLEC, Chen Fachun, President of Tianjin Foreign Studies University, and Ogura, President and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Hokuriku University attended the seminar and delivered speeches.
Prof. Ma Jianfei noted that China and Japan are geographically close, people-to-people and cultural exchanges are connected, and peace and friendship are always the main theme in the hearts of the two peoples. Not long ago, President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida held their first meeting in Bangkok, and the two leaders agreed to work together to build constructive and stable China-Japan relations that meet the requirements of the new era. The meeting between the two leaders was significant and guided the course for the healthy and stable development of China-Japan relations and exchanges and cooperation in various fields in the coming period. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and Japan, and next year will mark the 45th anniversary of the China-Japan Peace and Friendship Treaty. CLEC will continue to support the sustainable and high-quality development of Chinese language education in Japan, maintain close cooperation with the Japanese education sector, take the two anniversaries as opportunities to build on the momentum, promote mutual understanding through language exchange and cooperation. We will continue to strengthen the foundation, gather strength, and make new and greater contributions to help China-Japan practical cooperation in various fields and create the next 50 years of better China-Japan relations.
Chen Fachun said that for more than 2,000 years, the people of China and Japan have had friendly relations, learning each other's language, understanding each other's history and culture, and jointly writing a moving melody which sings "Though separated by a mountain, we’ll share the same clouds and rain. The bright moon belongs not to a single town." The exchange between the people of China and Japan lies in the people-to-people and language exchanges. Tianjin Foreign Studies University is looking forward to further strengthening interaction with the old and new friends, working together with all strength and seeking for the shared benefit to develop more extensive exchanges and cooperation in the fields of professionals training and scientific research.
Ogura said that Hokuriku University has been conducting friendly exchanges and cooperation with Chinese universities since 1986, which is the first Japanese university to carry out a 2+2 cooperation program with Chinese universities to jointly train undergraduates. He believes that through this China-Japan Language Education Seminar, experts from Chinese and Japanese countries who are engaged in Chinese and Japanese language studies will be able to ignite sparks of wisdom, gather new consensus, and present results with theoretical guidance and practical value to promote new achievements in international Chinese and Japanese language education.
In the keynote presentation and discussion session, more than 20 experts and scholars in the field of language education in China and Japan, including Prof. Furukawa Yutaka, Vice President of the International Society for Chinese Language Teaching (ISCLT) and Professor of Osaka University, Japan, and Prof. Xiu Gang, Vice Chairman of the National Advisory Committee on Teaching Foreign Languages and Cultures to Majors in Higher Education under the Ministry of Education and Chairman of the National Advisory Committee on Teaching Japanese Language to Majors in Higher Education under the Ministry of Education, focused on the two themes of "Current Situation and Issues of Chinese Language Education in Japan" and "Problems and Countermeasures of Japanese Language Education for Chinese Japanese Learners". They enthusiastically discussed the new problems and situations of Chinese language education and Japanese language education in China and Japan. The participating experts said that they would take this seminar as an opportunity to promote the exchange of Chinese and Japanese language education more actively and to promote mutual learning of Chinese and Japanese civilizations.
The seminar not only has provided new ideas and perspectives for language education practice and research in China and Japan, but also strengthened mutual learning and two-way exchanges between Chinese and Japanese scholars in the field of language education in both countries, bringing new insights for future exchanges and cooperation in the field of education between China and Japan, and providing new directions for promoting mutual development.
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