From 65438 to 0992, the Thai government began to implement a comprehensive opening-up policy for Chinese education, taking Chinese as an optional foreign language course in school education. The Ministry of Education of Thailand decided to list Chinese as the first foreign language and incorporate Chinese courses into 200 primary and secondary schools in Thailand, so that Chinese and English are equally matched. There are about 150 Chinese schools with nearly 20,000 students in Thailand, and more than 30 secondary specialized technical schools offer Chinese elective courses. China government strongly supports Chinese language education in Thailand, subsidizes thousands of Thai Chinese language teachers to go to China for training every year, and provides scholarships for 100 Thai Chinese language teachers to study in China.

Cambodia

There are more than 80 Chinese schools (including public and private schools) in Cambodia, with nearly 50,000 students, with the largest number of public and private Chinese schools in Phnom Penh. Ruihua School, founded by Chaozhou Guild Hall, is the largest, which is divided into regular schools and branch schools. It has 200 classes, more than 230 teachers and staff, and more than 65,438+065,438+0,000 students, 80% of whom are China students, and the remaining 20% are Cambodian children and individual Vietnamese China children. Chongzheng School established by Hakka Guild Hall and comprehensive school established by Hainan Guild Hall have about 2,000 students, and Chinese schools in other provinces and cities have about several hundred students. Among more than 80 schools, 15 has junior high school classes, and only Ruihua School has professional classes equivalent to senior high school level. Chinese education in Cambodia has formed a complete teaching and management system, including a unified academic system, teaching materials and teacher deployment.

Singapore

Singapore is a country with a majority of overseas Chinese. Education in China has a history of 150 years since its establishment. Singapore first pushed Chinese schools to industrialization and internationalization, and the informationization of Chinese education was in a leading position in Southeast Asian countries. Although schools in Singapore use Chinese as a second language, more than 87% of Chinese can speak fluent Mandarin, and 75% of Chinese civil servants have passed the Chinese conversation test. Singapore has not only introduced high-level Chinese teachers, but also conducted multi-channel training for its Chinese teachers.