{"id":2432,"date":"2022-10-13T11:04:02","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T08:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/confucius2\/?page_id=2432"},"modified":"2023-02-13T15:56:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T12:56:30","slug":"mission","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/confucius\/mission\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">There are currently more than 500 Confucius Institutes in more than 130 countries, playing a key role in education and culture exchanges between China and the rest of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">It is expected that the Institute will be nationally and internationally recognized as having made a significant contribution to the development of strong cultural, research and economic links between China and Cyprus. It will achieve this by:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Promoting awareness of Chinese language and culture in Cyprus.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Acting as a focal point to support China related activities in Cyprus and beyond.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Offering innovative and flexible Chinese language courses, not only to students at the University of Cyprus, but also to the wider community in Cyprus.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Establishing an imaginative and exciting programme of events, which will contribute to enhance cultural understanding of China for the Cypriot business community and the public sector.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Developing and promoting teaching and research in the area of Chinese studies in Cyprus.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Providing service to the public and private sectors that will facilitate improved relations and a deepening of economic links between Cyprus and China.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Hosting scholars, researchers and language teachers from China and from all over the world.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Establishing a resource center for local professionals teaching Chinese language.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Setting up a HSK (Chinese Language Proficiency Examination) Center for Chinese language testing and test preparation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Strengthening the understanding and bonds with the Chinese Diaspora.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Promoting the Cypriot culture to China.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are currently more than 500 Confucius Institutes in more than 130 countries, playing a key role in education and culture exchanges between China and the<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2432","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 13:48:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"translation_priority","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/confucius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/confucius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/confucius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/confucius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/confucius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2432"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/confucius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3556,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/confucius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2432\/revisions\/3556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/confucius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}