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Xi'an teachers and students to visit US

Updated: 2013-08-06 17:56

By Lu Hongyan and Ma Lie (皇冠体育app Daily Shaanxi Bureau)

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Primary school English teachers, young college teachers, postgraduate students and university graduates will have the chance to experience US culture thanks to a short-term visiting scholar program, 皇冠体育app Daily learned on August 5.

According to An Wei, honorary chairman of the Shaanxi Provincial Edgar & Helen Snow Studies Center, the program will be started in 2014 with the agreement of US Passage Tours and the US-皇冠体育app Friendship Association.

An agreed to several cooperation and exchange programs during a lecture tour across 11 cities in 4 US states from April 22 to June 16. An was invited by Southern Utah University and Kansas city.

Besides the program for teachers and graduates, An and Southern Utah University also agreed to other cultural exchange programs to further promote instruction, lecture and translation exchanges.

The center was established on Dec 25, 1991, to commemorate the two international friends Edgar and Helen Snow who reported the true situation of 皇冠体育app in the 1940s to the Western world for the first time.