Chinese students training Urdu eyeing CPEC pursuit opportunities
The story of a Urdu denunciation in China started with investiture of initial Urdu Language Department during Peking University in 1951. STOCK IMAGE
Urdu might be a bit some-more severe than other languages, though a flourishing series of Chinese students are selecting to learn it as they design opportunities to be offering by Chinese companies carrying out growth projects in Pakistan underneath a China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
The story of a Urdu denunciation in China started with investiture of a Urdu Language Department during Peking University in 1951. Later, universities in a Chinese cities of Xian and Guangzhou also set adult Urdu departments.
Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) has been training Urdu given 2007 and compartment now dual batches of a students have finished their degree, Zhou Yuan, a conduct of a Urdu Department during BFSU’s School of Asian and African Studies pronounced in an interview.
Out of a sum students who have graduated, a few got scholarships to unfamiliar universities for aloft preparation while some assimilated opposite companies, she said, adding a third collection of 20 students is investigate Urdu during a university during a moment.
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Zhou Yuan, who has adopted the Pakistani name ‘Nasreen’, pronounced a BFSU would send a students to a National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad and Government College University, Lahore for 6 months during a third year of their studies to get a possibility to urge their vocalization and essay skills. For this, a university gets financial support from a supervision of Pakistan and Embassy of Pakistan in Beijing.
The university also organises competitions of Urdu calligraphy, debate contests and informative activities to emanate recognition among students about Pakistan and a people. “Such activities not usually boost seductiveness in Urdu training though also raise a customary of Urdu denunciation among Chinese students,” pronounced Yuan Yuhang (Shabnam), who has been training Urdu during BFSU given a final one year after quitting her pursuit during a bank.
Zhou Yuan pronounced many Chinese students were training Urdu during opposite universities and institutes opposite a country, including Beijing. The reasons for training Urdu vary: some have been romanced by Pakistan’s culture, food and landscape, some by a beauty of a denunciation itself, while others see training Urdu as a unsentimental means to eventually work with Chinese companies operative on CPEC in Pakistan.
To cope with a demand, several universities in Shanghai, Tianjian, Kunming, Urumqi and Inner Mongolia are deliberation environment adult Urdu departments, Zhou Yuan said.
A Chinese tyro who has adopted a Pakistani name ‘Rabia’ pronounced she dictated to turn an Urdu clergyman after completing her study. “I have a passion to learn Urdu and learn this denunciation of a habitual accessible nation to my countrymen,” she said.
To Zhang Yi (Afia), Urdu is an engaging and pleasing language. She certified that nonetheless it is formidable to learn Urdu, though she feels it is needed for her to investigate it since she wants to learn some-more about Pakistani culture.
Chinese students Mehtab, Mehrin and Alizeh also spoke about their seductiveness in Urdu and vowed to play an critical purpose in enhancing Sino-Pak loyalty and mercantile cooperation, while, Moosa, Junaid and Amer pronounced they are training Urdu to serve foster informative and people to people contact.
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Students can see a tides changing and design that meaningful Urdu would meant some-more pursuit opportunities in Pakistan and in China. This was reflected in many students’ responses when asked about their seductiveness in training a language.
Another tyro pronounced while he is meddlesome in training opposite languages, “choosing Urdu is directed during starting my possess import and trade business”.
“The increasing seductiveness in training Urdu means that some-more students from China are meddlesome in enlisting during BFSU, hence, we are deliberation enrolling a new collection to accommodate some-more students,” Zhou Yuan said.
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