Global dreams for Confucius (2)

The Confucius Institutes are non-profit public institutions jointly established by universities and Hanban (also known as the China National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language) to promote the Chinese language and culture and support local Chinese teaching internationally.

After eight years of development, more than 400 Confucius Institutes have been established in 108 countries and regions, and 500 Confucius Classrooms opened to teach pre-university students.

Despite the fast growth, Xu Lin, director-general of Hanban and chief executive of the Confucius Institute Headquarters, said there is still "a long way to go" for the Confucius Institutes to integrate into host universities and communities.

"We should actively provide services, and try our best to better integrate into host universities and communities," Xu said in an interview ahead of the Seventh Confucius Institute Conference in Beijing.

Xu raised four major objectives that Hanban plans to achieve by 2020 to help with the integration of Confucius Institutes into host universities and communities.

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