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2021 Events

  1. On February 1, 2021, the Chinese Embassy in Turkey sent a caring "New Year Gift Pack" (pandemic prevention materials, New Year greeting cards, gifts, etc.) to the Chinese teachers of METU Confucius Institute.
  2. On February 1-5, 2021, as the Chinese New Year approached in 2021, the teachers of METU Confucius Institute introduced the traditions and customs of the Chinese Spring Festival to nearly 200 students through online lectures, online classroom discussions and other forms. The activities were popular among the students.
  3. On July 7, 2021, the Turkish final of the 20th "Chinese Bridge" Chinese Proficiency Competition for Foreign College Students in Turkey was successfully held in the form of online live broadcast. Chinese Ambassador to Turkey Liu Shaobin attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech. Liu Lu, a Chinese teacher from the Confucius Institute at the Middle East Technical University, served as the judge of the competition.
  4. In March, 2021, the spring semester of the 2020-2021 academic year of the Middle East Technical University began. METU CI offered four levels of Chinese courses (CHN201, CHN202, CHN203, and CHN204) to undergraduates and graduate students, including four classes for Level 1 CHN201 and two classes for Level 2 CHN202. There is one class for Level 3 CHN203 and one class for Level 4 CHN204. Nearly 200 students enrolled these courses. In October, the 2021-2022 academic year fall semester of the Middle East Technical University started. METU CI's Chinese course registration rate was extremely high. However, due to shortage of teachers, METU CI offered only 3 classes of two levels, and the students who registered for the courses reached 70.
  5. On November 30, 2021, Chinese Director, Wu Tianxi was invited to meet with Prof. Dr. Mehmet T. ZEYREK, Vice President of Middle East Technical University and Prof. Dr. Dürdane Şirin Saraçoğlu, the foreign Director of METU Confucius Institute, to discuss the development of the Confucius Institute in future.
  6. On December 9, 2021, the news report of TRT (Türkiye Radyo Televizyon Kurumu) Haber introduced the construction of the Confucius Classroom at Ayranci High School of Ankara (Ayrancı Anadolu Lisesi, Ankara), supported by the Confucius Institute at Middle East Technical University in Turkey. In 2019, the Chinese Embassy in Turkey donated a new Chinese language classroom to the school, to promote cultural exchanges between Chinese and Turkish young generations.
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