Historically, there is no any other two countries, like China and India have a similar experience: We are both ancient civilizations, we have a wide area, large population, we are close neighbors in Asia, separated by the Himalayas, while important, between us, there are two millennia history of friendly exchanges.
Into the new century, rapid development of China and India as well as the rising global influence, making two big countries with each other more deeply concerned about the beginning. Development of bilateral relations depends on the political mutual trust, economic benefit and personnel exchanges, which represents the country’s future exchanges between the young people is particularly important.
Chinese President Hu Jintao’s visit to India in 2006, had affectionately recalled his 1984 annual rate of Chinese youth delegation visit to India scenarios. He said: “Youth is full of vigor, full of ideals, is the country’s hope, but also the future of humanity. In 1924, when the great Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore’s visit to China once said:” Young people like in Morning Star, shines with hope for the future of the motherlandå…‰. “The future development of China and India need young people to fight; the future development of Sino-Indian relations need young people to create.”
Today, China and India will celebrate 60 anniversary of establishment of diplomatic ties, bilateral exchanges between the young people more in-depth, multi-. According to the Chinese Embassy in India Huang Zhigang Education Department who introduced since 2005, the number of students from China and India marked increase in the number of students currently in India and China, there were about 1,200 people, mainly concentrated in Vellore in southern India, Chennai , Bangalore, Hyderabad and other famous universities, while in the north are few in number, for example, Chinese students in New Delhi only 200.
It is worth mentioning that this group of students nowadays are mostly 80, they are assertive, good communication, receptive to diverse viewpoints, but also for the new era of Sino-Indian exchanges between young people bring new vision and hope. Recently, the reporter approached a number of 80 to stay after the Indian students, listen to them talk about life in India, learning feelings about their contacts with Indian peers bits of the story.
In India, “countryside”
Architecture, Tsinghua University and two bachelor degrees, Ma Yu Law is an independent-minded songs and 80 after the girl. Originally, she can choose, like other students, like the United States studies, but ultimately, she came to the country of Tianzhu. She said it was its own initiative, chose India, there is no particular reason, If I have to say one, then it is a kind of fate.
Ma Yu Song said that she likes to play little research on the subject of his father’s religion and culture to poetry, has been yearning for India is.
In February 2009, Ma Yu song by the friend’s invitation, first came to India with his father play, take the opportunity to study learning environment. When she came to well-known universities in India, Jawaharlal Nehru University, walks on this as if the forest is located in the original eco-campus, a thirst for knowledge and Burton, however, health. She was confident that, just like China have such a long history and diverse culture of India, will become a place that inspires young people’s creativity and imagination of the country.
So, when the summer, Ma Yu Song smooth entry into the Jawaharlal Nehru University, first-year graduate student studying in the professional is India’s regional development. However, the professional involved in a wide range of knowledge, so few foreign students choose, let alone be able to insist on the finish. However, Ma Yu Song convinced that he can cope with their studies, which can not do without the selfless help of many Indian students. Although the schools are basically taught in English, but to master this profession, learning Hindi is also necessary. As a result, Ma Yu, a song offered to Indian students to practice every week with her Hindi, and sometimes, as well as the students take the initiative to help her copy teaching materials.
For this reason a special professional studies before beginning to Ma Yu Song of Indian society more in-depth, broader access to the people of India. However, when the course needs to be done countryside survey, Ma Yu song began to make things difficult, because the class of Indian students can choose their own home as a site of investigation, but such a student as she was at a loss. At this time, teachers of the initiative to help Ma Yu Song arrangement “to the countryside to” do research, so, she successfully came to Assam in northeast India, rural, countryside survey conducted a week and visit the farm, so she was benefited greatly.
Forget the “new Council”
Delhi University is another well-known universities, but here is one of the best business schools. Zhang Liang from Anhui Province, with effect from July 2009 School of Business undergraduate student at the school first grade. Speaking nearly a year of study, Zhang sure that “This is an exercise of human will can be the platform!”
Although less than a year, but Zhang has become the business schools of the “celebrity.” The original, according to college tradition, the beginning of each school year would arrange a “New Life”, but also opportunities for students to head start. In the past, Indian students are always more positive this time, Zhang thought about, the Chinese students that took the floor.
As a result, Zhang became the first in the nascent years of Chinese students who took the floor. Undoubtedly, this has caused no small sensation. Zhang Liang in fluent English on the topic of Sino-Indian relations gave a brief speech. During his speech, said that China and India are friendly neighbors since ancient times, which is an unchanging fact. Today, although the Sino-Indian relations encountered some difficulties, but it should be noted that prospects are good. He also said that China and India there are many complementary, so we should be more to see “the two countries can do together.” Finally, Zhang also asked teachers and students sang a Chinese song played, won warm applause from the presence of Indian friends.
Perhaps it was because he had just 20-year-old Chinese boy in his early outstanding performance, Delhi University Business School seems to have many people began to pay more attention to China, but also from time to time to ask about China’s Zhang things. Zhang deeply felt, between the two peoples have deep friendship, mutual understanding, but still not enough, he looked forward to more exchanges to lay a solid foundation for bilateral relations.
Zhang also said that he is willing to do his own modest efforts to make more contributions to non-governmental exchanges between the two countries. Now, he has plans to take advantage of the summer, organizing some Indian friends to China a look, because only personal experience would be real understanding. At the same time, he also hoped more Chinese friends can come to India to seeing is believing, between making new friends.
Praising “Harmony”
Huang Zhigang also introduced the Chinese students are more likely to stay in India or units of the country dominated by the public, of which 80% of the study courses are software engineering, in addition to medical education, mathematics, philosophy and social sciences. The reason why so many Chinese students choose to study software engineering, which in 2002 Premier Zhu Rongji’s visit to India, China and India hopes to strengthen science and technology, especially software industry, communication and cooperation is not unrelated. Later, the Chinese Ministry of Education organized each year to send eight of the 100 well-known colleges and universities come to India to study the exchange of students for one year to two years, participating students were generally reflected in good results.
Last year in July, from Xi’an International Studies University, a third-year undergraduate Hindi Liu Zhipeng and Peking University, Department of South Asia, India’s second-year graduate students in the religious culture of Jiang Lei, together with other 20 students arrived in New Delhi to begin a one-year exchange study .
Among them, Liu Zhipeng, who entered the Indian Human Resources Department under the Central Hindi Institute of Learning. Here, they accept pure Hindi education, and also learn Indian literature, and history. But the language and the first is to apply what they learn, so there idle, Liu Zhipeng always deep in Indian society, make Indian friends. He visited the school in the vicinity of the slums, and the Indian people from all strata to talk to learn authentic modern Hindi.
The past six months, Liu Zhipeng witnessed a number of Indian media for the Sino-Indian relations, “speculation”, but now he was deeply impressed by the Indian media, there have been more and more positive news about China. Especially in the face of the overwhelming majority of the people of India in Hindi media, also praising the recent opening of China, “Harmony” high-speed railway concerned, and even Liu Zhipeng met an old man in Mumbai is also holding a post, “Harmony” substantial Photos Hindi newspapers, he said: “It’s simply amazing!”
Language is a tool for communication, which is determined to learn Hindi Liu Zhipeng in mind. However, Jiang Lei extensive travel in India, when we got there that there are many places is no way to use Hindi exchanges. Indeed, a number of Indian ethnic, linguistic complexity, according to the statistics, India, a total of 1652 kinds of languages and dialects, including the use of more than 33 million species, such as the North Indian languages include Hindi and Urdu and so on, South India Language mainly Tamil, Telugu and so on. Jiang Lei proposed strengthening cultural exchanges, we should first strengthen their language learning.
He hoped to see the two governments on their respective language education more attention and investment.
Learn from the exchange. We believe that more Indians would be interested in China after the Olympics, more Chinese people will come to visit the Buddha and the Holy Land; more Indian youth will be learning Chinese and more Chinese young people will love Bollywood movies .
Not long ago, 88-year-old Professor YEUNG visited India and held talks with Chinese students, farewell, old people write such words: “I hope you Chinese students to study hard. India and China’s future will need a lot of work to communicate!” When students stay in India this as encouragement, in particular, a new era of post-80 young people, more efforts should be made to serve as the development of Sino-Indian friendly relations between the new messenger!