As the language＇s global（全球的） influence continued to spread, more than 70 countries and regions（地区）had included Chinese as part of their national education system by the end of last year, the Ministry of Education said in June.
(A)Over 20 million people are learning Chinese outside of China, and it became one of the official languages of the United Nations World Tourism Organization in January.
An international student at Beijing International Studies University said she started to learn Chinese in the first grade at her primary school in Panama（巴拿马）. Both her parents moved to Panama from Guangdong Province, and (C)she can also speak Spanish and Cantonese（粤语）. "China is developing very fast, and being able to speak Chinese will giveme more chances around the world, " she said.
To meet some learners' need, Chinese-language teachers are using new ways such as the Global Chinese Learning Platform（平 台）. Started in October, 2019, the platform had attracted more than 2. 1 million users from 170 countries and regions by the end of last year.
The platform has developed a mobile app. It supports Chinese, English, Russian, Japanese, Korean and Thai. In the future, it will support more languages.
When COVID-19 broke out, (B)it was not convenient for the students at home and abroad to study in the classroom. The platform helped them to continue learning Chinese online. It has a lot of resources（资源） and offers an immersive（沉浸式的） learning experience.
It's said that about 40 million students around the world have taken Chinese-language exams over the years. Chinese language learning is going global now.
