On November 15, 2024, President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the 2024 World Chinese Language Conference and congratulated the Confucius Institute on the 20th anniversary of its establishment.
Xi Jinping noted that language is a tool for human beings to exchange thoughts, a carrier for inheriting civilization, and a bridge for enhancing understanding. The Chinese language, which encapsulates the millennia-old wisdom of the Chinese nation, is an important public cultural product that China has contributed to the world. China's responsibility as the native-language country is to support and serve the international community in conducting Chinese language education.
Xi Jinping emphasized that international Chinese education is widely popular, demonstrating the charm of openness and inclusiveness, showcasing the value of mutual learning and appreciation, embodying the spirit of win-win cooperation, and crystallizing the shared efforts of people from China and abroad. Xi expressed the hope that the World Chinese Language Conference will break new ground while upholding fundamental principles, enhance interconnection and integration, build consensus among all parties, and strive to build bridges of lingual connectivity, understanding and mutual trust, and mutual learning between civilizations, thus making new and greater contributions to jointly building a community with a shared future for mankind.
Hosted by the Chinese Ministry of Education, the 2024 World Chinese Language Conference, themed "Interconnection, Integration, Inheritance, Innovation", kicked off in Beijing on the same day. Over 2,000 participants attended the conference, including government officials, school principals, experts, scholars, representatives of teachers and students, and diplomatic envoys to China from more than 160 countries and regions.
