Cultural and Humanitarian Cooperation

Cooperation in the field of education is growing rapidly, expanding exchanges of students and specialists.

Since May 2005, Confucius Institute promotes the learning of Chinese language and culture in Tashkent. Current number of students is 350. More than 2,500 young people were educated since the establishment of the Institute. The Agreement on establishment of Confucius Institute in Samarkand was signed during President Xi Jinping‘s visit to Uzbekistan in September 2013.

In 2014/2015, the PRC government provided educational grants for 120 Uzbek students and trainees on a bilateral agreement and within the SCO. Approximately 50 students from Uzbekistan have been studying at Lanzhou University through Confucius Institute.

Since academic year 2012/2013, Beijing Foreign Studies University offers Uzbek language programs.

Center of Uzbekistan Studies and Academic Exchanges as the first of its kind institution in China was opened on the basis of Public Diplomacy Institute of SCO at Shanghai University on May 15, 2013.

In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Uzbekistan, on March 13, 2017, on the territory of the Shanghai University, a monument to Alisher Navoi was opened.