The Council 07 2014 Meeting of the Council of Confucius Institute Headquarters held in Xiamen 11 2014WorkReport oftheConfucius InstituteHeadquarters /Xu Lin 17 Members of the 4th Council of the Confucius Institute Headquarters
Opening Ceremony 19 The 9th Confucius Institute Conference Held in Xiamen 24 Keynote Address at the Opening Ceremony of the 9th Confucius Institute Conference / LiuYandong
Keynote Speeches 31 Su Shulin,Governor of Fujian Province, P.R.China 33 Zhu Chongshi,President of Xiamen University,P.R. China 35 Timothy O’Shea, Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of Edinburg, U.K. 38 Barry Marshall, Nobel Prize Laureate (2005), Student of Confucius Institute at the University ofWestern Australia, Australia 40 Nairobi,Kenya
Awards Lists 42 Pioneers of Confucius Institute 43 2014 Confucius Institutes of the Year 44 2014 Confucius Classrooms of the Year 44 2014Outstanding Confucius Institute Chinese Partners of the Year 45 2014Confucius Institute Individual Performance Excellence Award of the Year
Directors’Forums 50 Directors’ Forums
Presidents’Forums 56 Presidents’Forums
Exhibition 61 Confucius Institute ExhibitionsMakea Hit 63 Digital Teaching Materials Becoming the Mainstay Information Service 65 Delegates give thumbs up to Information Service of Headquarters’Programs
Closing Ceremony 68 SummaryRemarks atthe9thConfucius InstituteConference /Xu Lin
Lecture 74 The State of theWorld and the Vital Nature of Your Work /John L.Thornton 80 Confucianism and the Qualities of Chinese Entrepreneurs (an abstract) / Li Dongsheng
Performance 82 Dance Drama Dream of Maritime Silk Road Takes to Stage
