cooperation with china today, let’s ask ksenia yakushenko, vice-rector for scientific work at bntu, and irina kamadei us open a confucius institute in bnto, and we are also working on creating a center for the protection of machine parts, corrosion protection, we have such a joint educational and scientific center, well, you have one of the confucius institutes , he has a special direction in science and technology, what is his feature? yeah, confucius institutes, uh let’s say, their main mission is to spread the culture of china, to acquaint residents of all countries of the world with chinese culture, with china, but our confucius institute is also distinguished by the fact that we deal with issues of scientific and technical cooperation interaction with china , there is an urgent need for specialists who study chinese not just. at a basic level, but also have a fairly deep command of scientific and technical terminology, this is exactly the problem, let’s say, that was raised by 10 years ago, when the decision was made to open the confucius institute for science and technology at bnto, as ksenia v