Cooperation between China and Philippines – The booming online education and increasingly popular Filipino teachers in China’s ESL (English as a Second Language) market is helping to bolster a win-win development for China and Philippines.
“China’s emerging 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 job opportunities for the Filipino people,” said Ambassador Huang Xilian, Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines, during his keynote speech at the 2020 Sino-Philippines Educational Exchanges Seminar held in Beijing on Friday.
The event
The event, hosted by 51Talk, one of China’s leading online English education platform, aimed to further strengthen and develop bilateral education exchange and cooperation between the two countries in the year marking the 45th anniversary of the founding of bilateral relations between the Philippines and China.
“51Talk has fully tapped the talents from the Philippines in the past several years. With the help of online digital technology, 51Talk has opened a window for thousands of Chinese children to communicate with foreign teachers worldwide, and it has created a worthwhile online platform for China-Philippines educational cooperation,” said Ambassador Huang.
Philippine Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, H.E. Jose Santiago Sta. Romana is glad to see many Filipinos teaching Chinese students via internet.
“I’m very pleased that 51Talk is giving an opportunity to 20,000 competent Filipino educators to take part in nurturing the eagerness of nearly 300,000 young Chinese people to learn the English language. This educational exchange albeit virtual provides an enabling environment for cultural exchange between Filipinos and the Chinese,” said Ambassador Sta. Romana, adding that he hopes “more doors will be opened up for more and more Filipino educators in the same mutually beneficial manner.”
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