On September 20, Cui Chuanjiang, director of the Confucius Institute at Francisk Skorina Gomel State University from the Chinese side, and V.I. Koval, a specialist of the Confucius Institute, made a working trip to the Confucius Institute of the Minsk Linguistic University to get acquainted with the experience of colleagues and the development of friendly relations. A detailed conversation took place with the director of the Confucius Institute of MSLU from the Belarusian side, T.A.Demyanenko, and the director of the Confucius Institute of MSLU from the Chinese side, Sheng Xuemei, about the main activities of both Confucius Institutes. An agreement was reached on the mutual holding of cultural and familiarization events and the exchange of experience in teaching Chinese, as well as on the participation of the delegation of the IC MSLU in events dedicated to the 5th anniversary of the Confucius Institute at Francisk Skorina Gomel State University.
In addition, two more working meetings were held on the same day – with the head of the Department of Theory and Practice of the Chinese Language of the Moscow State University, Professor A.N.Gordey and the head of the Department of Chinese Philology of the BSU, Associate Professor N.N.Khmelnitsky, during which the next events of common interest were agreed.