Ambassador Masood Khan has said here that at present six thousand Pakistani students were studying in China and the immediate goals is to increase these numbers to twelve thousand. Talking to the President of Honder College of Inner Mongolia Normal University Zhou Yushu here on Monday at the Pakistan Embassy on their successful visit to Pakistan, Ambassador Khan said that the long-term goal of both sides was to touch the figure of 1 million people.
In this regard, he said that the visit by the delegation of Honder College to Pakistan is a 'catalyst'. The Ambassador said that many intuitions in Pakistan have started teaching Chinese language. He pointed out that Pakistan and China during Premier Wen Jiabao visit to Islamabad in December accorded education as priority area in the joint statement issued on the occasion. He informed Zhou that when he visited the Honder college, last year, he was impressed with the high quality of standard 'your dynamic approach' and your endeavour made it a high quality institution in private sector.
Ambassador Khan said that he was glad on the visit to Pakistan where the Chinese students observed the working of public and private education initiations. He further said that private institutions of Pakistan are imparting quality education and government was working hard to improve the education in public sector as well. He said that although Pakistan is fighting the menace of terrorism, our commitments towards spreading education remains unaffected. He assured that the co-operation of Honder College would proceed smoothly with the Pakistani intuitions.
Earlier, President Zhou briefed the Ambassador about his visit and said that he was really impressed with the quality and standard of the education being imparted in various higher learning institutions in Pakistan. He said that he has signed MoUs with two institutions for teachers and students exchange programmes.
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