Chinese universities welcomed the increase in the number of Emirati students on scholarship to China, and their readiness to support them and enable them to benefit from the expertise, science, knowledge and training in major Chinese universities and companies.
This came during a visit by a delegation from the Office of Scholarships to prestigious Chinese universities, the UAE Embassy and Consulate General in China, and the Chinese Board of Scholarships.
The delegation visited 12 prestigious Chinese universities, including “Peking University”, “Fudan University”, “Beijing University of Technology”, “Shanghai Jiao Tong University”, and “Beijing University of International Studies”, where it discussed with their officials the admission conditions and mechanisms. , developments in academic and summer programs, and bilateral cooperation mechanisms.
One million Chinese tourists
The total number of Chinese tourists to the UAE reached more than one million visitors during the first ten months of 2023, and the number of Chinese in the country reached about 350,000.
The number of flights between the two countries per month reached more than 210 flights via the UAE’s national airlines. During the meeting of the eighth session of the Joint Economic, Commercial and Technical Committee held last February in Abu Dhabi, the two countries stressed the importance of holding joint tourism exhibitions and events that would promote the most prominent tourist and historical attractions in the two countries, and support benefiting from the potential and components of tourism diversity in them to attract more tourist delegations from the whole world.
Beijing speaks Arabic
The Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Center for the Study of the Arabic Language and Islamic Studies, which was established in 1990 at the University of Islamic Studies in Beijing, contributed to spreading Arab culture in China and promoting the Arabic language. Cultural weeks, music festivals and events organized between the two countries, and exhibitions also contributed to Books help strengthen cultural relations between them and push them forward year after year.
“Chinese” in 171 Emirati schools
The year 2019 witnessed the launch of the “Project of Teaching the Chinese Language in Two Hundred Schools” in the Emirates, which to date has attracted more than 71,000 students in 171 schools in various emirates of the country, which embodies the great interest of Emirati students in learning the Chinese language as a bridge for cultural and human communication between… The two countries.
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