Xiamen University’s Overseas Education and International Chinese Education Marks Its 70th Anniversary

Xiamen University held the HighQuality Development Conference marking the 70th Anniversary of Overseas Education and International Chinese Education on October 3, reviewing the university's history in overseas Chinese education and international Chinese education, and discussing future development. Pan Weilian, an American professor at Xiamen University, reviewed at the conference his experience of studying Chinese at Xiamen University, learning about Chinese culture, and eventually staying on to teach there. He said that education is not a oneway output, but a process of mutual learning and shared understanding between China and foreign countries. The university said that Xiamen University established its Overseas Chinese Correspondence Department as early as 1956, making it one of the earliest universities in China dedicated to overseas Chinese education. After 70 years of development, the university has formed an educational pattern integrating international Chinese language education, cultural communication, a combination of distance learning and facetoface teaching, and parallel advancement of theoretical research and applied development. The conference also held a donation ceremony, the launch ceremony for overseas teaching sites, and the first release of academic works, further promoting international Chinese education and overseas cooperation.