During his the ongoing visit to China Armenia's Education and Science Minister Armen Ashotyan has met with Chinese Deputy Education Minister Hao Ping.
The press service of Armenia's Education and Science Ministry reports that during the meeting Ashotyan stressed the need to deepen Armenian- Chinese relations in the fields of education and science and to exchange experience between students, lectors and researchers, while Ping said that an Armenian language and culture center will shortly be opened in one of the Chinese universities Ashotyan said that the Chinese language has become very popular in Armenia in the last years, with more and more Armenian students expressing wish to study in China. He said that the Ministry is planning to open a school where Chinese will be taught on an advanced basis.