Abilities Building: Confucius Institute and Propaganda Arm

abilities building: The Confucius Institute will remain a key government policy, a document on modernizing China's education system issued late on Saturday by the party's Central Committee and the Cabinet showed, according to The Japan Times. Optimize the regional distribution of the Confucius Institute, strengthen its abilities and building, and fully raise its educational standards, they said in the statement, released by the official Xinhua News Agency late on Saturday. In 2004, China began setting up the government-run bodies, whose stated mission is to satisfy soaring global demand to learn Chinese. ; But they have drawn criticism, especially in the United States, for being little more than a propaganda arm of the ruling Communist Party, assertions denied by both the institutes and the government. Strengthen work on the teaching of Chinese internationally, they added, without giving details. Some U.S. legislators, including Florida Sen. Such broad statements are typically followed weeks or even months later by more detailed policy documents that focus on implementation. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.