Representatives of the Chinese province of Gansu will study Russian at the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno

For the first time the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno organizes the School of Russian language for the citizens of the PRC. The employees of the Government, the Corporation for the Development of Highways, Aviation and Tourism, the Department of Health and the Commerce Department of Gansu Province to learn the language for two weeks - from October 13 to 27.

Grodno oblast and Gansu province have a long history of cooperation, which is established in a wide range of sectors: economy, industry, tourism. Active interaction of the regions over the past few years has led to the need for training cadres for the Russian language for more effective cooperation. In September of this year, during the visit to Grodno of a delegation from Gansu province, an agreement was signed to support the organization of training between the Office of External Relations under the Government of the Gansu Province of China and the Economy Committee of the Grodno Oblast Executive Committee.

The program of the School includes daily 6-hour interactive classes in the Russian language, many of them will be conducted in the form of business games, with the use of case studies and modern teaching methods. In their free time the participants of the School will visit enterprises of the Grodno region and get acquainted with the economy and culture of the oblast.

It is worth noting that the Yanka Kupala State University has more than 20 years of experience in teaching foreigners to the Russian language. In addition, since 2015 the University has successfully implemented the projects "Summer and Winter Russian Language School", the number of participants and geography of which is growing every year.

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The Gansu Province is located in the north-western part of the People's Republic of China. Its administrative center and the largest city is Lanzhou, whose population is more than 25.5 million people.

For centuries, Gansu was a vital corridor between China and Central Asia: through it passed a nearly 1600-kilometer stretch of the Great Silk Road. The province was considered a "golden segment" of this international tract. Evidence of this are numerous ancient monuments scattered along the entire Silk Road - temples, monasteries, pagodas, towers and ancient castles.

The province is considered a developed economic region of China. Much attention is paid to power engineering, extraction and processing of non-ferrous metals, engineering and petrochemicals.