Any visitor to the Chinese Culture Week being held at the University of Tehran would be amazed by the Chinese tea, food, and various artworks produced through Chinese knotting and (tradition) paper cutting — all displayed by Iranian students learning Chinese.
The Chinese Culture Week aims (introduce) Chinese culture to more Iranians. Held inside the lobby of the institute, which (establish) in 2009, the event displayed a range of artworks that contain different (element) of Chinese culture, produced by Iranian professors and students at the university.
"(give) China's increasing global influence, as well as its friendly and expanded relations with Iran, learning about the country directly is becoming (vital) important," said Hamed Vafaei, the Iranian director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Tehran. He believes that the students who are studying Chinese language at the institute will enter different sectors of Iranian society in the near future, helping more people to get to know more about China.
China is the world's second-largest economy, the most populous country, a permanent member of the UN Security Council, so learning Chinese has become a necessity as many around the world have realized, he said.
"Each of the students here is a window toward China, (help) the Iranian people have a more realistic picture of the country, which will make possible to improve bilateral relations in the long run," he added.
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