2019年国际中文教育大会期间签署部分新设孔子学院等中文教育机构合作协议

12 月10 日下午，2019 年国际中文教育大会期间，8 个新设孔子学院、孔子课堂、汉语中心合作协议签署仪式在长沙举行。教育部副部长田学军出席仪式并见证协议签署。中外方院校代表参加了仪式。

田学军副部长先后见证了白俄罗斯国立体育大学孔子学院、印度尼西亚乌达雅纳大学孔子学院、菲律宾达沃雅典耀大学孔子学院、格鲁吉亚第比利斯开放教育大学孔子学院、沙特阿拉伯吉达大学孔子学院、智利边境大学孔子学院、马尔代夫维拉学院汉语中心、东帝汶商学院孔子课堂的协议签署，并为其授牌。

签署仪式结束后，田学军副部长为“中医特色孔子学院中方合作院校工作联盟”“辽宁省孔子学院合作大学联盟”，以及中国传媒大学“孔子学院传播研究中心”揭牌，并与参加仪式的嘉宾合影留念。

按照中外双方相互尊重、友好协商、平等互利的办学模式，在外方主动要求和自愿申请基础上，经认真评估和专家评审，2019 年共新设27所孔子学院、66 个孔子课堂。海地、中非、乍得、朝鲜、多米尼克、东帝汶、马尔代夫、沙特等8 个国家首次设立孔子学院。

截至目前，共在全球162 个国家和地区建立了550 所孔子学院和1172 个孔子课堂。

On the afternoon of December 10th, the agreement signing ceremony on the establishment of eight Confucius Institutes, Confucius Classrooms and Chinese Language Centers was held in Changsha during the 2019 International Chinese Language Education Conference. Tian Xuejun, Vice Minister of Education, was present at the ceremony and witnessed the signing of agreements. Representatives from home and abroad attended the ceremony.

Vice Minister Tian Xuejun witnessed the signing of agreements on the establishment of the Confucius Institute at Belarusian State University of Physical Culture, the Confucius Institute at Udayana University in Indonesia, the Confucius Institute at Ateneo de Davao University in the Philippines, the Confucius Institute at Tbilisi Open Teaching University in Georgia, the Confucius Institute at University of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, the Confucius Institute at the University of La Frontera in Chile,the Chinese Language Center at Villa College in Maldives and the Confucius Classroom at East Timor Institute of Business, and awarded plates to them.

After the agreement signing ceremony, Tian Xuejun unveiled the nameplates for the Working Alliance of Chinese Partner Institutions of Confucius Institutes for Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Liaoning Province Confucius Institute Partner University Alliance and the Public Image Research Center for Confucius Institutes in Communication University of China, and took group photos with the guests at the ceremony.

In accordance with the principle of mutual respect, friendly consultation and equality and mutual benefit, 27 Confucius Institutes and 66 Confucius Classrooms have been established in 2019 according to the request and voluntary application of foreign partners after careful evaluation by experts.Eight counties, including Haiti, Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK),Dominica, East Timor, Maldives and Saudi Arabia, established Confucius Institutes for the first time.

So far, 550 Confucius Institutes and 1,172 Confucius Classrooms have been established in 162 countries and regions.