From August 7^th to August 27^th, the Summer Camp of the Jilin University-University of Buenos Aires Confucius Institute was carried out smoothly in Jilin University (JLU). At the graduation ceremony, Professor Yue Hui, Dean of School of International Chinese Language Education, granted graduation certificates to all camp members. The ceremony was attended by relevant personnel from the College of International Education.

The summer camp lasted three weeks. Activities arranged mainly fell into three categories, namely, Chinese language learning, cultural experience and field activities. During their stay in Changchun, the 13 camp members attended courses of the traditional Chinese language. Besides, accompanied by their JLU student companions, they experienced items of traditional Chinese culture, calligraphy, Tai Chi boxing, erhu (a two-stringed bowed musical instrument), paper-cutting and traditional Chinese medicine. Also, they made dumplings, watched Chinese films and visited places like the Puppet Manchurian Imperial Palace & Exhibition Hall and CRRC Changchun Railway Vehicles Co., Ltd.

On August 23^rd, the camp members, before their departure, went to Beijing and visited the Chinese Culture Experience Center at Hanban/Confucius Institute Headquarters. They played ancient Chinese chimes, guqin (seven-stringed musical instrument) and pipa (four-stringed musical instrument) with great interest, and they took pictures of themselves in ancient Chinese clothes. They then visited places of interest including the Confucius Temple and Guozijian Museum, National Museum of China, the Palace Museum, the Great Wall and the Tian’anmen Square. The camp members were all amazed by China’s mutually glorifying ancient and modern civilization as well as the great changes brought by the country’s socio-economic development.

The summer camp is a student exchange activity that JLU and the Confucius Institute at the University of Buenos Aires carried out, as entrusted by Hanban/Confucius Institute Headquarters. The summer camp aimed at helping students of the Confucius Institute improve their Chinese language proficiency and understanding of the Chinese culture and promoting the teaching of the Chinese language worldwide. Up till now, the Confucius Institute at the University of Buenos Aires has enrolled over 170 students.