On 7 and 8 December 2014, the 9th Confucius Institute Conference was held in Xiamen, Fujiang Province, China. Minister of Education Yuan Guiren presided over the opening ceremony and Vice Premier Liu Yandong made a keynote speech. A total of over 3,000 representatives, from Confucius Institutes around the world and domestic partner universities and relevant educational departments,attended the conference.
At the opening ceremony, China vice premier Liu Yandong presented the awards to all the awardees. Nick Byrne, CIBL UK director,accepted this award certification on behalf of CIBL.
This honor is in recognition of the great efforts and developments of CIBL since its founding 8 years’ ago and will further serve to encourage CIBL’s future work.