On 29 June 2016, H.E. Mme. Yang Xiuping, Secretary-General of ASEAN-China Centre (ACC), met with H.E. Dr. Hang Chuon Naron, Minister of Education, Youth and Sports of Cambodia. They exchanged opinions on strengthening communication and cooperation in education between Cambodia and China, and ASEAN and China.
Secretary-General Yang Xiuping commented that 2016 marked the 25th anniversary of ASEAN-China dialogue relations as well as the year of educational exchange. ACC planned to implement 19 flagship projects, four of them in education and youth, including ASEAN-China Youth Exchange, Supporting ASEAN Students Activities, Mutual Exchange between ASEAN-China Vocational Education Institutions, and CAECW and SEAMEO Collaboration Projects. On the sidelines of “ASEAN-China Week”, ACC held a series of youth exchange activities, including “ASEAN Students Day: Closing Ceremony of ASEAN Students Sports Games 2016”, etc., which set up a platform for the communication of two sides’ overseas students.
Cambodia and China were close in educational exchange. By 2015, there were 1829 Cambodian students in China. China set up one Confucius Institute and three Confucius Classrooms in Cambodia. Many Chinese universities opened up Cambodian language courses. In the future, ACC would take further steps to strengthen cooperation with Cambodia Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports, make joint efforts to organize more splendid activities, enhance understanding and friendship among the youth, and lay a solid foundation for the brighter future of ASEAN-China relations.
Dr. Hang Chuon Naron extended a warm welcome to Secretary-General Yang and spoke highly of ACC’s efforts to promote educational cooperation between ASEAN and China. He said that the youth and education work was facing the future, which was important and influential for every country. Cambodia attached great importance to the cooperation with China in this field by encouraging more students to further their study in China to broaden their horizons, and make contributions to the friendly exchange between the two countries. ACC, as the only inter-government international organization co-founded by China and ASEAN countries, was an important platform for cooperation. It was expected that ACC would continue to make full play of its advantages, and push the related government sectors to provide more facilitations for Cambodian students who wanted to study in China, and send more teachers to train to Cambodian students. Cambodia hoped to strengthen cooperation with ACC, by holding summer camps, seminars, and carrying out exchange activities together, to strengthen communication and information sharing, and promote further development of Cambodia-China and ASEAN-China educational exchange and cooperation.
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