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State plans closer ties with UNESCO
By Cui Ning (China Daily)
Updated: 2004-03-03 00:30 China's cultural and educational departments will
further widen their partnership with the United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) this year, by implementing several new
educational programmes.
They include promoting basic education and farming skills in rural areas of
China and other developing countries,Tian Xiaogang, an official with the Chinese
National Commission for UNESCO, said at a news conference Tuesday in Beijing.
China set up an international training centre for rural education in the
1990s in Baoding of North China's Hebei Province, with the support of UNESCO.
"Based on this centre, we will pool talent from China Agricultural University
and invite overseas agricultural experts to build up capacity in farming skills
in rural areas of China, as well as in Asia and Africa,'' Tian said.
Since China resumed its legal seat in UNESCO in 1971, the country and UNESCO
have successfully teamed up in such areas as education for the public, fighting
illiteracy, heritage protection, conservation of biological diversity, geology,
oceanology and hydrology sciences.
China has also joined UNESCO'S efforts for building educational and
scientific programmes for some other member states.
Tian said UNESCO is now working hard to introduce the principle of cultural
diversity into international law.
In another development, the Ministry of Education has encouraged major
universities across the country to take on 40 important research programmes
involving social sciences, such as the relations of ethnic groups and religious
issues, major problems during the process of urbanization, studies on the
country's educational issues, human resources and rural population.
These programmes have greatly helped promote academic exchanges between
domestic and overseas universities, said Jin Nuo, an official of the ministry's
Department for Social Science, Thinking and Politics.
Nanjing University in East China's Jiangsu Province, for example, has widened
international exchanges with foreign counterparts in such issues as religion,
world history, world affairs and China's major issues.
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