During the "Chinese Language Year" in Russia and Spain, Confucius Institutes in these two countries played a major role by staging more than 600 events, attracting more than 300,000 participants.

中国与俄罗斯、中国与西班牙合作举办“汉语年”，两国孔子学院发挥了主力军作用，开展活动600多场，30多万人参加。

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Compared with 2001, how many more people took Chinese language exams in the UK last year?

与2001年相比，去年英国参加汉语考试的人数增加了多少？

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1031 people took Chinese language exams in 2001, and the number was 2062 last year, while 2561 people chose Spanish.

2001年有1031人参加汉语考试，去年这一数字为2062人，而选修西班牙语的人数为2561人。

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Bosideng is led by Chinese billionaire Gao Dekang, a member of the list of 25 Influential Chinese in Global Fashion published this year by Forbes China, the licensed Chinese-language edition of Forbes.

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Singapore's Nanyang Business School offers a Chinese-language executive MBA and from next year will have an English version.

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Malaysia's media, never the most outspoken, has been further cowed over the past year by the takeover of a Chinese-language paper by a group sympathetic to the government, and the sacking of some of the more adventurous journalists at an English-language one.

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