India’s Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has entered into an agreement with China’s overseas language institute, under which Mandarin will be offered as an option for foreign language in schools across the country to students.

Mandarin is the official language of China and is one of the most spoken languages in the world. Indian Ambassador S Jaishankar signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Xu Lin, Director General of Hanban, which is the official Chinese organization for promoting Mandarin aboard.

The Chinese institution will look to train 300 teachers from India in its schools and universities as the beginning. Xu said that it might efforts of 2 decades to promote the language in the country and the officials will work with patience and prevalence to attain that object during the coming twenty years.

“The MoU that has just been concluded lays the basis for cooperation between India and China on the teaching of Mandarin Chinese as a foreign language in Indian schools.” Jaishankar said.

He added that the exchanges of academic staff, teachers, trainees, experts, and students are part of the agreement between the two giant Asian neighbors. He described the development as a growing relationship between two neighbors.