China opens Confucius Institute at Catholic University of Santa Maria

In 2008, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies and the Catholic University of Santa Maria signed an agreement to establish a Confucius Institute in the world historical and cultural heritage city of Arequipa. On September 29, 2008, Chen Jianping, Vice President of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, and Julio Ernesto Paredes Nuñez, President of the Catholic University of Santa Maria, signed the “Special Implementation Supplementary Agreement for Cooperation between Guangdong University of Foreign Studies and the Catholic University of Santa Maria”. On September 10, 2009, the Confucius Institute at the Catholic University of Santa Maria in Arequipa, Peru, was formally opened. The institute currently has 16 teachers.

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