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    Teaching Mandarin in Victorian schools, student exchange top of China strategy

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    By Chip Le Grand

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    Teaching Mandarin in Victorian schools, student exchange top of China strategy

    Shanghai: Premier Jacinta Allan will return from China with an agreement with Beijing to establish more student exchanges and promote the teaching of Mandarin in Victorian schools after securing a personal meeting with China’s Minister for Education.

    The meeting, attended by Australian ambassador to the People’s Republic of China Scott Dewar, is likely to be Allan’s highest-level engagement with the ruling Communist Party during her first trip to China.

    Allan and Huai Jinpeng signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a joint working group with Victorian and Chinese officials which will meet once a year to facilitate greater two-way exchanges of primary, secondary and tertiary students.

    The agreement builds on preliminary work done by Allan’s predecessor, Daniel Andrews, in 2023 when he met with Huai Jinpeng to re-establish relations after the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted international education and tourism.

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