For his part, Ning Bin, President of Beijing Jiaotong University, valued the foundation of the center as an opportunity to collaborate, build platforms, and share resources that will help strengthen links in education and transport. Lan Hu, deputy director of the Department of Latin American and Caribbean Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, stressed that the creation of the center is the new fruit borne of cultural exchanges that also reflect the increasingly close relations of China and Uruguay. “The inauguration of the center is a very important step in developing the strategic partnership between the two countries,” said the Uruguayan Minister of Education and Culture. It was one of the first institutions of higher education in China to offer classes related to the transport sector and has established study centers on high-speed trains in countries such as Russia, the U.K., the U.S., and Indonesia. This university has a history of more than 120 years.
Maria Julia Muñoz, Minister of Education and Culture of Uruguay (center), Jing Wei, deputy director of Hanban (right), and Fernando Lugris, Uruguay’s ambassador to China, meet at the Hanban headquarters. Dedicated mainly to the study and research of Sino-Uruguayan relations, politics, economy, culture, tourism, and foreign relations of the Latin American country, the Center is based at the Beijing Jiaotong University. The inauguration of the Center for Uruguayan Studies on April 24, the first of its kind in China, has been an unquestionable advance for understanding between both nations. We think it will be interesting for the children and informative for the teachers.” “We are going to send elementary school students during their winter break to study at an institute of the Beijing Foreign Studies University. Among the immediate plans, Muñoz highlighted the upcoming visit to China by a group of Uruguayan children. Currently, there is great demand for learning Chinese in Uruguay. “We met with the authorities of the Confucius Institutes (Hanban) to help us find ways to didactically incorporate the language so that the teachers can start teaching as soon as possible,” said Muñoz.Uruguay’s global leadership push to include Chinese in primary education will allow China to see how well foreign children assimilate the language. Photos courtesy of the Embassy of Uruguay in China María Julia Muñoz, Minister of Education and Culture of Uruguay, and her delegation during a visit to the Hanban headquarters in Beijing. The proposal by Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez aims to incorporate the Chinese language through an online platform that Uruguayan schools currently use and to support teachers of other Latin American countries in an effort to spread the Chinese language. “We continue with the promise made by our president that Uruguayan children, through Plan Ceibal, will be able to use a computer to learn Chinese,” Minister Muñoz told China Today. THE official visit to China by the Minister of Education and Culture of Uruguay, María Julia Muñoz, between April 15 and 24, reaffirmed the intentions of the Latin American country to continue expanding its ties with the Asian country.
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