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Teaching Chinese as a foreign language is to teach Chinese as a foreign language to people whose mother tongue is other languages (also known as Chinese). The corresponding majors train Chinese and China teachers who can use foreign languages as working languages for colleges and universities.

Train tour guides and Chinese talents for tourism and various foreign-related departments and teach Chinese as a foreign language. Teaching Chinese as a foreign language is the cause of the country and the nation, and it is an integral part of the overall situation of the country's reform and opening up.

The development of teaching Chinese as a foreign language is of great strategic significance for promoting Chinese to the world, spreading the excellent culture of the Chinese nation, enhancing mutual understanding and friendship between Chinese and foreign people, cultivating more people who are friendly to China, expanding economic, cultural and language exchanges and cooperation between China and foreign countries, and improving the international influence of Chinese.

China started teaching Chinese as a foreign language from 1950. At that time, Tsinghua University held a special course for exchange students from Eastern Europe in China, and received the first batch of international students from New China. This is the first institution in China that specializes in teaching Chinese as a foreign language.

From 65438 to 0952, according to the intergovernmental agreement, the famous linguist Zhu and others went to Bulgaria to teach Chinese for the first time, which was the beginning of sending teachers overseas to teach Chinese after liberation. Since then, the Chinese government and relevant departments have taken a series of important measures to develop the cause of teaching Chinese as a foreign language.

196 1- 1964, four reserve Chinese teachers specially trained by the state went abroad. These teachers have become the backbone of teaching Chinese as a foreign language in China.

1962, in order to adapt to the new situation, the State Council approved the establishment of a preparatory college for foreign students, and in 1965+0, it was officially renamed as Beijing Language Institute, which provided a stable base for teaching Chinese as a foreign language in China.

Since the early 1960s, our government has sent some teachers to teach Chinese as a foreign language abroad, including Egypt, Mali and Congo in Africa, Cambodia and Yemen in Asia and France in Europe.

During the Cultural Revolution, the cause of teaching Chinese as a foreign language in China suffered serious setbacks, and overseas students returned to China one after another, resulting in the disintegration of Beijing Language Institute. Most teachers who were sent abroad to teach also quit.