{"id":136432,"date":"2023-08-18T14:45:40","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T21:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=136432"},"modified":"2023-08-18T14:45:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T21:45:40","slug":"sri-lankan-president-emphasizes-importance-of-learning-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/08\/18\/sri-lankan-president-emphasizes-importance-of-learning-chinese\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan president emphasizes importance of learning Chinese"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy People&#8217;s Daily Online<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>COLOMBO, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) &#8212; Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe emphasized the importance of learning Chinese along with English for school children, the President&#8217;s Media Division (PMD) said on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The PMD said the president made such remarks while addressing the annual prize awarding of a leading school called &#8220;Anula Vidyalaya&#8221; in Colombo on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Schools and higher education institutions must be established as centers of knowledge dissemination in these fields. Consequently, our strategy encompasses the establishment of non-state universities alongside state institutions,&#8221; said the president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A scheme akin to the subsidized loan systems abroad has been devised to enable students to pursue education in non-government universities without financial constraints interrupting their academic pursuits, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Web editor: Zhang Kaiwei, Liang Jun)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy People&#8217;s Daily Online COLOMBO, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) &#8212; Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe emphasized the importance of learning Chinese along with English for school children, the President&#8217;s Media Division (PMD) said on Thursday. The PMD said the president made such remarks while addressing the annual prize awarding of a leading school called &#8220;Anula Vidyalaya&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}