Launch Ceremony of Chinese Bridge Contest（汉语桥比赛）in Greece

On March 29th, Business Confucius Institute in Athens held the “2015 Chinese Teachers Seminar and Launch Ceremony of Chinese Bridge Contest in Greece”. Nearly 40 more Chinese teachers who are native Chinese or Greeks attended it. Chinese ambassador Mr. Zou Xiaoli and two co-directors Ms Yang Xiuqin and Dr. Dimitris Kardaras were present. Mr. Zou made an excellent talk on the relationship between China and Greek, the current cooperative projects like COSCO business expansion in Piraeus, the importance of Chinese language teaching on promoting the understanding between two peoples. He kindly invites all teachers to be guests in the Chinese Embassy and welcomes direct email contacts from the teachers for any issue concerned. On the accreditation of HSK certificate, Mr. Zou said he will contact with Hanban, China, and the departments concerned in Greece and try to solve the issue the soonest. Ms Yang Xiuqin, the co-director of BCI gives a brief introduction to the Chinese Bridge Contest (汉语桥比赛) procedures and encourage all students to participate in this Contest which is held on 2nd, May, 2015 in BCI. After that, the teachers discussed their own thoughts and experience in Chinese teaching and everybody expressed thanks to Mr. Zou’s wonderful talk and the appreciation to BCI for organizing such a meaningful event.