Two nations' bond deepens over decades
China DailyAs China and Thailand have benefited from cultural exchange since ancient times, people-to-people exchanges between the two countries are increasingly close, showing unprecedented vitality over the past years with the all-round development of bilateral relations, said Fu Zengyou, former dean of the Confucius Institute at Chulalongkorn University. Apart from ordinary ones such as whether China had banks or photo studios, many Thai people asked questions that came from bizarre rumors that went far beyond Fu's imagination. As co-founder of Thailand's first department of Chinese language that was launched in 1996 at Srinakharinwirot University and vice-chairman of the Thai Chinese teachers' union, Fu said Chinese language learning has been booming among Thai people over the past decades. "Since Thailand and China built diplomatic relations in 1975, the Thai government has encouraged learning Mandarin thanks to the efforts from Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, who had a leading role in particular," Fu said.
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