China Daily, October 16th (Sun Ruonan) On October 16, the 2020 China-Philippines Education Exchange Seminar and China-Philippines Co-creation of the Guinness World Record Honorary Certificate Ceremony ended in Beijing.
Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Huang Xilian, Philippine Ambassador to China Romana and his third secretary Allen, 51Talk founder and CEO Huang Jiajia, Guinness Records Witness Hou Ying and others attended the seminar.
At this seminar, the ambassadors of the two countries delivered keynote speeches on China-Philippines education issues.
Ambassador Huang Xilian, the Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines, said that emerging Chinese industries such as online education under the epidemic have catalyzed a new win-win cooperation model for China and the Philippines. On the one hand, it has helped China's distance education and on the other hand, it has provided a large number of online jobs for Filipino teachers opportunity.
Ambassador Huang added that as a well-known online English education company in China, 51Talk has fully tapped the advantages of Filipino talents in recent years and introduced more than 20,000 Filipino English teachers, opening a window for thousands of Chinese children to contact the overseas world through the Internet. It has created a brand new online platform for China-Philippines education and cultural exchanges.
The Philippine ambassador to China, Romana, believes that language is an important communication tool for mankind, bringing countries closer together.
But because of the incompatibility between languages, languages sometimes create barriers for people. What 51Talk does is to gradually eliminate such barriers.
Ambassador Romana said that 51Talk has given many Filipino teachers a chance to earn a living, so that young Chinese students can receive high-quality English education at home.
As a result, the two peoples have become closer together.
Especially during the epidemic, this kind of warm connection between people seems commendable.
He also welcomes more Chinese students and Filipino teachers to study, and hopes that the friendship between the two countries will last forever and the exchanges in education will be closer in the future.
Huang Jiajia, founder and CEO of 51Talk, said that 51Talk uses online teaching to closely connect Chinese students with foreign teachers in the Philippines.
This year's epidemic has caused tens of thousands of Chinese students to "study at home", so online education has become one of the most concerned industries this year.
During the epidemic, 51Talk extended a helping hand to the Philippines, not only donating more than 5.25 million pesos of medical supplies, but also expanding the scale of introducing teachers in the Philippines.
Huang Jiajia also said that the popularity of Filipino education among Chinese families is gradually increasing, and the improvement of students' oral English and teaching satisfaction are also high.
51Talk will continue to increase the scale of recruiting online English teachers in the Philippines, and hopes to introduce 100,000 Filipino teachers in the future to further deepen the education cooperation between the two countries in the form of online education.
As one of the highlights of the seminar, the first Guinness World Record jointly created by China and the Philippines was successfully challenged.
This is an activity that 51Talk led students, Philippine teachers, employees and the public to participate in commemorating the 45th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the Philippines-to challenge the world record of "the largest online wave of video collection". Thousands of Chinese students and Philippine teachers By waving in the air, we will spend "Give me 5!" together, a moment of witnessing the friendship between the two peoples.