The 2018 work summaries of Confucius institute at Novosibirsk State University

Confucius Institute at Novosibirsk State University was founded as a Confucius Classroom in 2008. Its Chinese partner is Xinjiang University. Under the wise leadership of Office of Chinese Language Council International, Sino-Russia both sides have pressed ahead with their sincere cooperation. Confucius Institute focused on improving the quality and efficiency and made pleasant progress on Chinese teaching, local Chinese teacher training, holding Chinese cultural activities and Sino-Russian cooperation, which inspired local people to study Chinese and learn Chinese culture. Through 10 years’ hardworking Confucius Classroom was updated to Confucius Institute. There are 12 universities and schools in Novosibirsk, Barnaul and Gorno-Altaisk take active part in the project, it was above 1800 students, who studied Chinese with the teachers of NSU Confucius Classroom in 2018; the courses 21 students received scholarships awarded by Confucius Institute. The important events in 2018 include: successful training program for more than 60 local teachers of Chinese in January; Chinese Lantern Festival Gala in February; 1st prize at the “Chinese Bridge” national student competition and a set of cultural activities conducted with visiting NSU by Xinjiang University students in April; Chinese Summer Camp program at Dalian Foreign Languages University for 38 students in July; Confucius Institute Day and scientific and practical conference “The Cultural Heritage at the Silk Road Routes” in September; 5th Regional students competition in Chinese films’ dubbing in October; Novosibirsk region’s educational principals and administrators’ visit to Harbin in November. Besides, local libraries and museums also initiated CI for joint events for introduction Chinese culture repeatedly. Also we invited some famous professors from other Russian universities to deliver lecturers for NSU students or teachers and in cooperation with Xi’an Jiaotoung University conducted the Special training for Silk Road engineering and technological development sponsored by the UNESCO IKCEST.