Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- PART I Society and Culture in Transition
- PART TWO Economy and Markets in Transition
- PART THREE Education in Transition
- Opening the Two-Way Fast Lane for China-CEE Cultural Exchange by Equally Valuing the International Promotion of the Chinese Language and the CEE Languages Teaching
- A Contrastive Analysis of Traditional Chinese and Western Teaching Styles – A Case Study
- How Does Learning Style and Teaching Style Jointly Relate to Cultural Intelligence? A Study of Chinese Overseas Students
- Preparation of University Students from Western Cultures for Cooperation with China: Reasons and Methods
- Facing the Challenges of Teaching Chinese through Confucius Classrooms in Slovenian Schools: Current Situation and Prospects
- The Role of the Confucius Institute at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje in Promoting the Chinese language, Culture and Business in the Republic of Macedonia
- Education in Transition of China-Based Jesuits from the Austrian Province
- Link in the History: The Development of the Research on Avguštin Hallerstein and its Contemporary Meaning
- Contributors
Preparation of University Students from Western Cultures for Cooperation with China: Reasons and Methods
from PART THREE - Education in Transition
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 December 2017
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- PART I Society and Culture in Transition
- PART TWO Economy and Markets in Transition
- PART THREE Education in Transition
- Opening the Two-Way Fast Lane for China-CEE Cultural Exchange by Equally Valuing the International Promotion of the Chinese Language and the CEE Languages Teaching
- A Contrastive Analysis of Traditional Chinese and Western Teaching Styles – A Case Study
- How Does Learning Style and Teaching Style Jointly Relate to Cultural Intelligence? A Study of Chinese Overseas Students
- Preparation of University Students from Western Cultures for Cooperation with China: Reasons and Methods
- Facing the Challenges of Teaching Chinese through Confucius Classrooms in Slovenian Schools: Current Situation and Prospects
- The Role of the Confucius Institute at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje in Promoting the Chinese language, Culture and Business in the Republic of Macedonia
- Education in Transition of China-Based Jesuits from the Austrian Province
- Link in the History: The Development of the Research on Avguštin Hallerstein and its Contemporary Meaning
- Contributors
Summary
This paper highlights the reasons why it is necessary to prepare university graduates for cooperation with China. Based on the current experience of the Department of Applied Economics, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic, the possible ways and scope are suggested.
According to the statistics of the International Monetary Fund (2014), China was the world's largest economy when it comes to the size of real GDP in 2014. It is estimated (Businessinfo, 2014) that by 2020 China will have had a 17% share of the world trade. Czech trade with China has increased sharply in the last twenty years. China is an important business partner for the Czech Republic, with Czech import from China being sharply higher than export to China (Czech Statistical Office, 2015). The most important traded commodities are machinery, vehicles, hard goods and soft goods. There has also been an increase in Chinese investments in the Czech Republic and Czech investments in China. For example, an important Chinese private company, CEFC, is currently planning to invest CZK 20 billion in the Czech Republic. Czech investments in China are primarily aimed at the automotive industry and services (Businessinfo, 2014b). Another area with a big growth potential is tourism. In 2014, 200 000 Chinese tourists came to the Czech Republic (Czech Tourism, 2014).
The short summary of Czech trade with China presented above clearly implies that the labor market will experience an increase in the demand for workers who can speak Chinese and who are well-oriented in economics, the Chinese culture, business etiquette and so on. Even today, the demand for such workers is high. This fact is confirmed by surveys of Czech employment websites (e.g. jobs.cz, careerjet.cz…) and by confirmed easiness with which graduates of Applied Economics combined with Chinese Philology at the Faculty of Arts of the Palacký University find jobs. Many of these students are already employed in the course of their studies.
Important factors to be considered when preparing students for cooperation with China
It is necessary to strengthen, extend and update the preparation of graduates who would possess the currently demanded qualifications and competencies in response to the development of Czech-Chinese relations and the social and technical development in general. Many factors must be taken into consideration when preparing students for cooperation with Chinese partners.
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- China - Central and Eastern Europe Cross-Cultural Dialogue Society, Business and Education in Transition , pp. 363 - 374Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2016