This year, the Educational Center "Confucius Institute", created in our university together with Harbin Normal University, which is a long-time partner of our university, turns 10 years old.
In October 2010 with the participation of delegations of several universities in China, the delegation of the Consulate General of China in Khabarovsk in a solemn atmosphere this Educational center was opened.
Throughout the autumn, anniversary events dedicated to the activities of the center are held. Not so long ago, a Poetry contest was held among schoolchildren studying Chinese and, yesterday, another event took place that is important for the Educational Center and for the University as a whole.
On December 16, as part of the University's scientific events, an international scientific conference dedicated to the anniversary of the Confucius Institute was held. The name of the conference is " Russia and China: Thoughts about the past, a look into the future " speaks about the content of the issues discussed at it. Researchers, practical teachers, and researchers from Russia and China presented their reports on the problems of linguistics and literature, methods of teaching Chinese and the philosophical views of great thinkers, historical events, and the joint fight against the COVID 19 pandemic.
Taking into account the current realities, when it is impossible to simultaneously gather a large number of participants within one university, it was decided to hold the conference simultaneously in different formats. This is especially important, given that the participants of the conference represented universities in Moscow, Ryazan, Perm, Novosibirsk, Blagoveshchensk, Komsomolsk-on-Amur and other cities of Russia, as well as the North-East of China. Therefore, the conference itself was held in full-time (in compliance with all the norms of social distancing), online (via broadcast) and in absentia formats (in the mode of a pre-sent video presentation).
The conference itself was broadcast online, so everyone had the opportunity to watch the conference itself and ask questions directly during the speech. The total number of participants in the conference exceeded 80 people.