Prof. Ghada Farouk, Vice President of Ain Shams University, received Professor/ Yang Way, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Chinese International Education Foundation and the accompanying delegation for his sovereignty.

The meeting dealt with cooperation relations between the Chinese International Education Foundation and Ain Shams University since Ain Shams University adopted the task of teaching the Chinese language, since the fifties of the last century, at the Chinese Language Department, at the Faculty of Al –Alsun. The head of the Foundation thanked Ain Shams University for its efforts in the field of teaching the Chinese language in Egypt and the Arab world through the pioneering role of the professors of the Chinese Language Department at the Faculty of Al -Alsun in teaching Chinese language and culture.

Prof. Ghada Farouk, Vice President of the University, also thanked the Chinese Foundation for the Foundation's support for the Confucius Institute and support the efforts of Ain Shams University in teaching the Chinese language and Chinese culture in Egypt.

Ain Shams University was the first university that started teaching the Chinese language in Egypt, North Africa and the Middle East in the 1950s, and today the Chinese Language Department at Ain Shams University receives 400 students annually, where 1600 students are studying in the department at the university stage, and the department is granted the master's and doctorate degrees, and there is more than 50 faculty staff in the department, and professors of the Chinese language department contribute to overseeing Chinese language departments in many universities in Egypt and the Arab world.

Several faculty staff in the department obtained the master's and doctorate degrees from Chinese universities, and the faculty members of the department also carried out the scientific tasks after the doctorate in Chinese universities.

In the year 2017, the Confucius class was established at Ain Shams University in cooperation with the University of Guangdong for foreign studies, which rose to the Confucius Institute in the year 2020, and the Confucius Institute annually receives 1600 students to study the Chinese language through courses in three semesters throughout the year (autumn, spring and summer), the institute also organizes 3 times for the Chinese and HSKK and HSKK exam exams.

The Confucius Institute nominate the students of the Academic Scholarships Institute for Study in Chinese universities. The Institute, in cooperation with the Guangdong University for Foreign Studies and the Chinese International Center for Chinese Language, organizes training courses for Egyptian teachers and summer camps for students.

The delegation visited the headquarters of the University of Confucius at the university, teaching halls, and electronic exam halls in which we hold international exams for the Chinese language level HSK and HSKK at the Faculty of Al -Alsun.