DUFL booms as bilingual talent hub

When Dalian University of Foreign Languages set up a Confucius Institute in Medellin, Colombia, in 2010, it brought new hope to a young local man named Juan Mateo Maya.

Maya, who was 18 years old, was a college student majoring in engineering. He had little interest in the subject and was thinking of learning Mandarin.

One day while wandering along the street, he came across the newly established institute and registered immediately.