There are not enough Chinese language teachers in the world. It has become a big problem. Didi Dawis, the president of the Indonesia Fujian Association(印尼福建商会), said Indonesia has only about 1 ,000 Chinese teachers.
"With increasing trade and communication between China and Indonesia, more and more companies from the two countries have established language offices. These new companies need a large number of people who are good at Chinese," he said.
Didi Dawis hoped that China would take Indonesia's language needs into consideration and send more Chinese teachers.
In recent years, the Chinese language has become more and more popular worldwide. The United States government also noticed the importance of Chinese language. In New York and California, it has become the second language of many students. In the future, more and more schools will open Chinese courses, so they need many high-level Chinese teachers.
China is working out many ways to solve the problem. President Xi Jinping said during his visit to the US in September in the next three years, China will support the studies of 50, 000 Chinese and US students in both countries, and the US will provide chances for as many as one million students to learn Chinese by 2020.
