Confucius Institute in New Brunswick  held a large scale conference in Fredericton on Nov17th ,2015. More than 40 officers and principals from schools which setting Chinese teaching program as well as Deputy Minister of New Brunswick Department of Education and Early Childhood Development all attended this event. At the same time , this is also an opening for CINB 2015 board meeting.

This event is presided by CINB Director , Ms. Teng Jing. She firstly welcomed all the guests and said thanks to all who supported and helped CINB Chinese program. Then reported our achievement from 2007 which got guests warm applause. Mr. John McLaughlin, Deputy Minister of New Brunswick Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, Dr. Francis Pang, President of AKD International, Mr.Dannis Cochrane, President of AEI, Ms. Dawn Weatherbie Vice president of AEI, Executive Director of Confucius Institute in New Brunswick, joined the dinner and each delivered a speech, appreciating CINB’s efforts in promoting Chinese culture and language in New Brunswick. At the same time they also showed their supports and will to popularize Chinese program and extend influence.

This conference is in the form of dinner so that all the guests communicated Chinese program’s development among different schools and directs. At the same time, people can study from each other and make progress together. During the dinner, all the teachers from CINB sang the beautiful song Jasmine Flower leading by Professor. Li Min Hong, Chinese director of CINB and Mr. Fei Fa Zhou brought a wonderful Tai Ji performance along with the music  which makes our dinner even better.

This conference not only improved the communication between CINB and schools from different directs, but also offered a chance for different schools who can learn from each other. It indeed makes a positive effort for the development of Chinese program even makes a brilliant long bridge for Confucius Institute’s Chinese teaching and Chinese Culture transmission around New Brunswick.