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Chinese at DU
- More than 100,000 students are taking Mandarin Chinese at the high school level, according to the American Council of the Teaching of Foreign Langauges. More than 51,000 stdents are enrolled in Chinese languages study at the university level.
- In 2008, China will become the world's biggest exporter, the second biggest importer and the third biggest economy, and overtake America as the country with the largest number of internet users.
- Chinese civilization is one the longest and most enriched the world has ever known. The Chinese language features a written system that is pictographic, symbolic and phonetic. It is one of the most distinctive written systems in the history of human languages.
- The transformation of China, composed of three interrelated elements--economic reemergence, socio-political transformation and intellectual reinterpretation--invites a wide range of theoretical and practical challenges in human history: modernization and the preservation of traditional culture, development and environmental protection, economic growth and socio- political reforms, global trade and proper use of local human and natural resources, etc.
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