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Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 310 3rd International Conference on Culture, Education and Economic Development of Modern Society (ICCESE 2019) Status, Problems and Countermeasures of Higher Education Cooperation Between Yunnan Province and South and Southeast Asian Countries* Jianhui Yun Science and Technology Management Department Yunnan Agricultural University Kunming, China Wei Long Hao Yang** College of Economics and Management College of Foreign Languages Yunnan Agricultural University Yunnan Agricultural University Kunming, China Kunming, China **Corresponding Author Abstract—This paper analyzes the status of international and also has become China's new highland for education in cooperation in higher education with Southeast Asia and South Asia and Southeast Asia. This paper analyzes the status Southeast Asia through the following five aspects: the of international cooperation in higher education with Southeast perspectives of higher education cooperation platform, the Asia and Southeast Asia through the following five aspects: the education of international student, the international promotion of perspectives of higher education cooperation platform, the Chinese as a foreign language, the Sino-foreign Cooperation in education of international student, the international promotion Running Schools, and training of non-general languages talents. of Chinese as a foreign language, the Sino-foreign Cooperation And this paper will propose some targeted countermeasures and in Running Schools, and training of non-general languages recommendations for the problems. talents. And this paper will propose some targeted Keywords—higher education cooperation; problems and countermeasures and recommendations for the problems. countermeasures; Yunnan; South and Southeast Asian countries II. ANALYSIS OF THE STATUS OF INTERNATIONAL I. INTRODUCTION COOPERATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION AMONG YUNNAN PROVINCE, SOUTH ASIA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA Over the past several years, relying on geographical advantages and high-quality educational resources, Yunnan A. Platforms of Cooperation in Higher Education Province has taken the "idealism, introduction, cooperation and win-win" as the guiding ideology, and has actively explored Yunnan Province has actively established platforms for and achieved certain results in the international cooperation in international education exchange and cooperation, and has higher education with South and Southeast Asian Countries. maintained long-term good relations with more than 4,000 The disadvantaged position of higher education in Yunnan colleges and educational institutions in more than 40 countries. Province has greatly been changed. This cooperation has also On the one hand, it relies on the “Yunnan-Thailand Education expanded the space and tension of higher education Exchange and Cooperation Conference”, “Exhibition of development of Yunnan, and has promoted the new level of Yunnan International Education”, “South Asia and Southeast higher education in Yunnan Province. The development has Asia Cooperation of Education Forum”, “South Asian and entered a new era, and Yunnan has become an important Southeast Asian University Presidents Union”, “The Lancang- educational center for South Asia and Southeast Asia, the talent Mekong College Students’ Goodwill Games”, “The Alliance of training base and important destination for overseas students, Lancang-Mekong Professional Education”, “The Red River Basin University Presidents Forum” and so on. These *Foundation Project: Young and Middle-aged Social Sciences Project of platforms have carried out various forms of higher education Yunnan Agricultural University in 2017 “Running Schools of Higher Education Abroad for Yunnan universities facing ‘the Belt and Road’ cultural exchanges with South and Southeast Asian Countries. countries” (2017SK06); Yunnan Philosophy and Social Sciences Innovation On the other hand, it relies on the three “China-ASEAN Team Scientific Research Project in 2018 “Yunnan's Overseas School-running Education and Training Centers” established by the Ministry of Model and Development Path to Southeast Asia and South Asia”; Yunnan Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Education in Yunnan Philosophy and Social Sciences Planning Project “Research on International Agricultural University, Yunnan University, and Yunnan Cooperation Model of Higher Education between Yunnan and Neighboring Countries”(YB2016045). Minzu University, and five Overseas Work Office in Laos, Copyright © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). 1081 Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 310 Myanmar and other ASEAN countries established by Yunnan By the end of 2017, Yunnan Province has established 12 Education International Exchange Associations provide overseas cooperative educational institutions and 3 overseas Chinese teachers, training of agricultural technology, tourism, cooperative projects of education in South and Southeast Asian cooking, high-level educational exchanges, and make donation Countries. In 2010, Honghe College cooperated with Taiyuan of teaching instruments and equipment for South Asian University in Vietnam to host an overseas cooperative project Southeast Asian countries. of education. The Bangkok Business School co-established by Yunnan University of Finance and Economics and Rangsit B. Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages University of Thailand in 2014, was one of the four overseas With the Confucius Institute as the carrier, Yunnan cooperative institutions in Thailand, with a total of 110 Province has carried out wide-ranging and all-round undergraduate students. In 2016, Yunnan Jiaotong College educational activities to deepen the educational and cultural established a Branch School in Thailand, and started the exchanges with Southeast Asian countries. Many Confucius specialties such as rail transit and automobile application Institutes have been established in nine countries around the technology. In 2017, China-Myanmar Vocational and world. By the end of 2017, Yunnan has established 15 Technical College was listed, and the Yunhua Vocational Confucius Institutes and Confucius Classrooms abroad, and 4 College in Myanmar and Thailand began to enroll students. national-level Chinese international promotion bases. In 2016, Phnom Penh International College of Dali University in Yunnan had successfully held the 11th Confucius Institute Cambodia whose training model will be profession + language, Conference. Yunnan University, Yunnan Normal University one school and six countries are now been actively prepared for and Yunnan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine were construction. awarded as the “Chinese International Promotion Base of One Belt and One Road for South Asian and Southeast Asian ”, E. Talent Training of Non-generic Languages “ The Teachers’ Training Base for Promotion of In order to speed up the training of the international high- Chinese(Kunming) ” , "The Base for Promotion of Chinese and level talents that adapt to the national “Belt and Road” Chinese Traditional Medicine", three national-level construction and the construction of the radiation center to international base for promotion of Chinese. Teaching Chinese South Asia and Southeast Asia in Yunnan, the government has language and culture carried out by the Confucius Institute has intensified the training of “ language(Southeast Asian and increased the international popularity and influence of South Asian) + profession” composite talents. Since 2007, the universities in Yunnan, and has a positive effect on expanding Yunnan Provincial Government has earmarked a special the enrollment of international students, improving the level of subsidy of 5 million yuan per year for the provincial finance, enrollment , and regional cooperation. which is specially used for the cultivation of talents in colleges and universities. The number of college students in Yunnan C. Education of International Students who study non-generic languages has increased from 1,634 in Before 2004, the number of international students in 2006 to nearly 60,000 in 2015. As of 2016, there are 43 Yunnan Province was only a thousand. In order to courage colleges and universities in Yunnan have established 62 non- South Asian and Southeast Asian students to study in China, generic languages majors, and 24 undergraduate colleges have Yunnan Province has established scholarships to attract established 30 majors, including languages of Southeast Asian students from Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian countries. countries. In 2018, College of South Asian of Yunnan Minzu On the one hand, the international students can apply for University established undergraduate majors in 7 non-universal Chinese government scholarships, Confucius Institute languages: Tamil, Hindi, Urdu, Nepali, Sinhalese, Pashto, scholarships, and Silk Road scholarships. On the other hand, Bengali. Since then, universities of Yunnan have established the government encourages universities to cooperate with majors that cover almost all languages in South and Southeast enterprises to establish School-enterprise joint scholarships in Asian Countries. Nearly 30 textbooks have been prepared to order to develop education of international students in Yunnan write or have been edited, and 25 non-generic languages Province. The number of students from South Asian and South- courses are