Xinhua Net – Julia Pierrepont III 
More than 1,000 educators, administrators, civil servants, and policy-makers from across the United States and seven other countries met this weekend in the U.S. coastal city of San Diego, California, with one shared goal: to promote Chinese language and culture in the United States. They came together at the 12th annual National Chinese Language Conference at the San Diego Sheraton Convention Center to share and discuss the trends and challenges facing globally-oriented education in general and Chinese language and culture in particular in a rapidly changing world. (more)