Jharkhand

• 20 Jun 2023

5 CUJ students selected for Taiwan Scholarship & Huayu Enrichment Scholarship

Why in News?

According to information received from the media on June 19, 2023, Taiwan's Ministry of Education released the result of 'The Huayu Enrichment Scholarship' for the academic programs of the year 2023-2024, in which five Chinese language learning students of the Far East Languages Department of Jharkhand Central University, Ranchi have been selected for this scholarship.

Key Points:

• Under this scholarship all these students of Central University of Jharkhand will be enabled to enhance their language skills during their visit and stay in Taiwan.
• Student Prachi Goyal and student Rahul Kumar have been given scholarships for 6 months to go to Taiwan and enrich the language by staying there.
• It is known that recently Prachi Goyal and Rahul Kumar had demonstrated their Chinese language skills brilliantly in the 22nd Chinese Bridge Competition.
• Saurabh Kumar, Rinshu Kumar Singh and Ashutosh Kumar have been awarded a 3-month scholarship to develop their Chinese language skills while living in Taiwan. These students will study the native culture and language in depth.
• It is known that the Chinese language is considered the most difficult language in the world due to its pictographic script.
• At present, the Central University of Jharkhand has emerged as a major centre of Chinese language learning in Eastern India, from where students studying the Chinese language have received the highest number of scholarships as compared to other universities in India.
• Every year students from many parts of India come to this university to learn Chinese. The craze to learn Chinese is such that this year more than 3500 applicants applied for 31 seats.
• This department of the university has excellent faculty as well as an excellent Chinese language laboratory and audio-visual laboratory facility, which greatly helps Chinese language learners.
• Chinese language expert and CUJ teacher Sushant Kumar said that today the Chinese language is in great demand in the market. In terms of employment, it has more employment than other languages. That's why the demand for this language is increasing day by day.