China News Service, Shanghai News, April 2 (Xu Jing) Against the background of building a community with a shared future for mankind, coupled with the increasingly strong demand for Chinese learning among people in many countries around the world, jointly promoting international Chinese education has entered a new level, providing mature external conditions for the development of international Chinese education. At the same time, Chinese majors or related courses have become required or elective in many countries and schools, making the international Chinese education development environment more mature.

What are the objective environments for international Chinese education reform? What corresponding adjustments need to be made? Sun Yixue, researcher at the Sino-German Humanities Exchange Research Center at Tongji University and dean of the School of International Cultural Exchange, recently gave a discussion on the topic of "A Community with a Shared Future for Mankind and International Chinese Education." The following is the full text of the article:

A community with a shared future for mankind and international Chinese education

"If a thousand people are of the same mind, the power of a thousand people will be gained; if a thousand people of different minds are of the same mind, there will be no use for one person."

The concept of building a body with a shared future for mankind originates from China's excellent traditional culture. It is a Chinese solution to the world's development dilemma that China has developed in the new era based on Chinese wisdom and in the face of major changes unseen in a century. Together with the traditional Chinese concepts of "the world is for the common good" and "beauty and beauty are shared", with the common happiness of mankind as the goal, it gathers all positive forces in the world to jointly promote the realization of mankind's beautiful ideals.

International Chinese Education is committed to promoting the globalization of Chinese language and culture through Chinese education, using Chinese education to help excellent Chinese culture become the driving force for world peace and development, and using the inherent ideas of peaceful development in Chinese culture, the idea of ​​​​the world as one family, and the ideas of sharing weal and woe, etc., to break the Tower of Babel of language, promote friendly coexistence and equal development among different languages ​​and cultures in the world, and realize the sharing and common prosperity of different national cultures in the world.

The concept of a community with a shared future for mankind is consistent with the goals of international Chinese education. The former is the work goal of the latter, and the latter is the way to achieve the former; the former is part of the educational content of the latter, and the latter is the medium for the realization of the former. Guiding international Chinese education with the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind is in line with the international characteristics of international Chinese education as a discipline or profession: International Chinese education is different from general language and literature disciplines. Its creation stems from the Chinese culture going global and the shaping of China’s international image. It is responsible for serving the national strategic needs and focusing on China. The basic development goals are equal and harmonious exchanges of foreign cultures and making Chinese a common language in the world. This is consistent with the inherent "cosmopolitan" and "multi-nationality" of the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind. The consistency is higher than that of other disciplines. Therefore, it is more conducive to promoting the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind to be recognized and supported by the world, and finally realized.

The concept of a community with a shared future for mankind has gradually become a world consensus and a symbol of Chinese civilization. International Chinese language education should take advantage of the momentum of co-building a community with a shared future for mankind, adhere to the internationalization of the Chinese language as the basis, cultivate more and more foreign friends who know China and love China, create an increasingly favorable international environment for co-building a community with a shared future for mankind, and use Chinese excellent culture, Chinese wisdom, and China's development achievements to enhance local people's sense of happiness and gain, and unknowingly make the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind come into daily use.

Since the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind was proposed, the awareness of the international Chinese education discipline has been further strengthened. Jointly building a community with a shared future for mankind is an immortal undertaking that is based on the present, takes a long-term perspective, and is passed down from generation to generation. It is based at home and radiates around the world. The environment is complex and diverse. It requires the continuous support of complex international domestic and foreign professionals. As an important discipline for cultivating professional talents that meet the needs of building a community with a shared future for mankind, international Chinese education has improved its position, refined training links, clarified longer-term training goals, and gained more spiritual power and cultural confidence in terms of talent training goals, curriculum, and quality assessment due to the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind.

International Chinese education has further integrated into the overall internationalization of China. Building a community with a shared future for mankind is the motivation and purpose of China’s diplomacy, reform and opening up, and is also the mission of the international Chinese education discipline. International Chinese language education is part of China's diplomatic work. It is at the forefront of China's internationalization. Its advantages and connotations have international elements. Its teaching and research itself include the content of building a community with a shared future for mankind. It has become an important platform and leading force in building a community with a shared future for mankind.

International Chinese education further integrates the power of multi-ethnic languages ​​and cultures. From a domestic perspective, the transformation from "Chinese International Education" to "International Chinese Education" actually shows that Chinese and other Chinese national languages ​​are equal. They are both organic components of the Chinese national language community, organic components of the Chinese language and culture to be spread to the world, and part of the Chinese language and culture that the world wants to know. Therefore, it also shows that all ethnic groups in China are the leading force in promoting the realization of a community with a shared future for mankind, thus gathering more powerful national power for the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind. ; Looking from abroad, the community of a shared future for mankind is first embodied in the Chinese nation as a family and a solid sense of the community of the Chinese nation. In the eyes of foreign co-builders, this is a miniature version of the community of a shared future for mankind.

International Chinese language education has become an important component in the construction of the Chinese nation’s community. The concept of a community with a shared future for mankind has promoted and expanded the connotation and extension of international Chinese education, making international Chinese education a platform for overseas exchanges and mutual learning jointly supported by the Chinese nation. This has united the co-construction of Chinese descendants around the world, mobilized the enthusiasm of overseas Chinese to help realize a community with a shared future for mankind, enabled the community with a shared future for mankind to gain broader overseas support, and created a more harmonious international environment.

Major changes unseen in a century present both opportunities and challenges to international Chinese education. The contemporary world is changing more and more rapidly, and there are increasingly no rules to follow. Traditional contingency strategies can no longer cope with it. International Chinese language education is constantly facing the complex and ever-changing international situation, which is rapidly changing in different countries and regions, with different forms and contents. It is necessary to make effective responses immediately and adjust teaching content and educational strategies, including teaching materials, teaching methods, educational technology, etc., to keep pace with the times. However, as a subject within the education system, international Chinese language education has a fixed academic system, training plan and graduation and completion procedures, which must be carried out step by step. This objectively causes a contradiction between the solidification of the teaching system and the changes in the teaching situation. Not only is there a time lag in understanding the same "change" at home and abroad, but there is also a time lag in the understanding and organization and implementation of the educational content and educational methods involved in the entire "three educations" issue. To resolve this contradiction, the government must take the lead in promoting and try to eliminate the disharmony, asymmetry, asymmetry, and out-of-synchrony in the development of international Chinese education caused by this time difference as soon as possible. In terms of information sharing, content sharing, technology sharing, etc., we must closely rely on the "One Belt, One Road" and the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind. A favorable domestic and foreign language and cultural exchange environment, a game of chess both internally and externally, serves as a bridge for mutual communication and progress, and builds the image of China as an international power with different divisions of labor but the same goal. They are the horns and sources of each other, making international Chinese education a testing ground, practice field and research and development site for China's diplomatic strategy. Only in this way can international Chinese education rely on the strong hard power and cultural soft power of China's comprehensive strength to become an icebreaker and diamond for Chinese culture to go global. It can proactively solve and have the ability to solve various subjective or objective, unintentional or intentional challenges. With the power of a drop of water, it can achieve the smooth and healthy development of international Chinese education, which is invincible.

In the future, international Chinese education will better help build a community with a shared future for mankind. As a national strategic project, international Chinese education can only achieve self-development in the great world peace and development experiment of promoting a community with a shared future for mankind. It can become one of the great projects to realize a community with a shared future for mankind. It can have the opportunity to absorb the wisdom and power of all excellent cultures in the world, continuously enrich its own cultural connotation, continuously expand its international vision, and become an organic component of the world's language and cultural ecology. Only in this way can international Chinese education truly become a community with a shared future for mankind. The concept goes deep into the tentacles and roots of overseas people's lives, cultivating more overseas youth and people from all walks of life who know China and are willing to jointly participate in the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind. Only in this way can international Chinese education truly leverage its strength and use the strong influence of the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind to help form China's greater international influence and solve various subjective or objective, unintentional or intentional challenges. With the power of a drop of water containing the power of the ocean, international Chinese education can develop smoothly and healthily, and be invincible.

The future development trends and implementation paths of international Chinese education. The general trend of China's development remains unchanged and will become stronger and stronger, with more and more international dominance and guidance. International Chinese education, as a beneficiary, facilitator, witness and representative of the improvement and growth of China's comprehensive national strength, has also shown and will continue to show a strong development trend and beautiful vision. Focusing on the major changes unseen in a century, as China's era of hiding its capabilities and biding its time comes to an end, China is gaining weight due to its high moral character, and the visibility and influence of international Chinese education in the world's language, culture and education system will also become greater and greater, taking its leading role and emergence in the world's discourse system. The power of questions and grading will inevitably become more and more important, which also determines that international Chinese education will assume an increasing responsibility in the process of Chinese culture going global and building a community with a shared future for mankind. This is an objective environment in which international Chinese education is a general trend and must be adjusted and reformed accordingly.

First of all, focusing on the future, international Chinese education must further clarify the positioning of the discipline and obtain a new status within the discipline system with the new positioning. In 2022, the establishment of a doctoral program in the international Chinese education professional degree category has become an integral part of China's higher education degree system. In terms of three-dimensional education, subject connotation, curriculum, management system, professional quality, education goals, and advisory services, it must be consistent with the existing discipline construction system, cooperate and manage together, and become a new position for cultivating people with moral integrity.

Secondly, focusing on the future, international Chinese education should, while integrating into the existing discipline construction system, learn from other existing disciplines instead of borrowing, seek differences instead of similarities, and ensure its own uniqueness and independence. Compared with first-level disciplines such as Chinese language and literature, foreign languages ​​and literature, and education, international Chinese language education has a clearer international and practical color. The existing subject system emphasizes theory over practice. The talents trained can write a thousand words, but most of them have no idea. They lack the awareness and ability to combine theory with practice. There are many rhetoricians and few who can tighten screws. The talents cultivated by the international Chinese education discipline must have the ability to fight on the front line. They not only have a strategic view of the overall situation, but also have the ability to teach a class tactically. They can direct students to learn Chinese well. They can move classroom positions freely. They can adapt to the language and cultural backgrounds of different countries and can give good classes anytime and anywhere. They can be directors, actors, commanders, and commanders.

Thirdly, looking at the future, international Chinese education should use whether it can cultivate students' ability to tell Chinese stories well as an important indicator of quality evaluation. International Chinese language education is an important platform and way to tell Chinese stories to the world - including the story of the "Belt and Road" and the story of a community with a shared future for mankind. Telling good stories is the most effective way for the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind to move, infect and change people. It can easily break through cultural barriers, dilute hostility, deepen human nature and create empathy between people from different countries. Only in this way can the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind truly enter the world, enter the hearts of the people and become a consensus.

2023 is the 10th anniversary of the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind, and the third year of the establishment of the international Chinese education major. They are just like "the roaring valley of the tiger" and "the falcon testing its wings". They are still young. And "when young people are strong, the country is strong" and "when young people are strong on the earth, the country is strong on the earth." In the face of changes in the world, changes in the times, and changes in history, China has an iron shoulder to bear moral responsibility. The ability of Chinese wisdom to recognize changes, respond to crises, and help people survive has been increasingly proven around the world. China's ideas and China's plans have increasingly demonstrated China's responsibility as a great power, and China's answers are increasingly recognized by countries around the world as the world's solution. "The future is as bright as the sea, and the future is long." International Chinese Education builds a bridge of world friendship with Chinese education, builds an international cultural reception room with harmonious cultural exchanges, invites and attracts different countries, different ethnic groups, and different groups of people in the world to jointly build a community of a shared future for mankind and build a world paradise where everyone can live and work in peace and contentment. (over)

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