La langue chinoise fait son entrée – Le Jeune Indépendant

In order to strengthen Algerian-Chinese exchanges, the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Kamel Baddari, supervised the official opening of the Confucius Institute on Tuesday at the University of Algiers 2 Abu El Kacem Saâdallah, intended for the teaching of the Chinese language.

The ceremony took place in the University Malek Bennabi auditorium, in the presence of the ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Algeria, the delegate delegate of Bouzaréah, the president of the Algerian-Chinese Association of Friendship, the Rector of the Chinese University “Northwest”, as well as security authorities and the university community.

On this occasion, the Minister wanted to emphasize that the Confucius Institute represents “an important step to strengthen and consolidate the transfer of knowledge”, while promoting the implementation of twinning programs between Algerian universities and their Chinese counterparts.

In the same vein, he also stressed that this new structure is “a bridge for cultural rapprochement” and for the development of friendship between students and teachers from the two countries.

This inauguration is a continuation of a process initiated in October 2024, with the opening of the Chinese language department in the same campus, the fruit of a partnership between the University of Algiers 2 and the Chinese University “Northwest”. During this event, the rector of the University of Algiers 2, remember, said that the creation of this department constituted “a cornerstone in teaching Chinese language in Algeria”, stressing that it was a stage inscribed in the “cooperation program between Algeria and China, to which President Abdelmadjid Tebboune and his counterpart Xi Jinping attach great importance”.

For its part, the vice-rector of the “Northwest” university had highlighted the will of its establishment to “promote scientific and academic exchange” with the University of Algiers 2, while expressing its wish to see this collaboration help to deepen the links of friendship between the two institutions.