新疆大学开始提供波斯语和乌尔都语课程(双语)

URUMQI -- Two universities in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous

region will add Farsi and Urdu to their undergraduate curriculum, according to a

government document released Saturday.

乌鲁木齐——根据周六发布的政府文件，西北地区两所位于新疆维吾尔自治区的大学将把波斯和乌尔都语添加到本科课程中。

Shihezi University and Xinjiang Normal University are setting up Farsi, and

Urdu majors, respectively, and start enrolling students nationwide this

summer.

石河子大学和新疆师范大学分别设立波斯语和乌尔都语专业，今年夏天开始招收全国学生。

Farsi is the official language in Iran and Tajikistan, and a major language

in Afghanistan.

波斯语是伊朗和塔吉克斯坦的官方语言，是阿富汗的主要语言。

Currently only six universities in China offer Farsi as a major, producing

less than 500 people proficient in the language, according to a Shihezi

University press release.

根据石河子大学发布的新闻稿，目前，中国只有6所大学提供波斯语课程，精通该语言的人不超过500人。

Xinjiang’s increasing cooperation in trade and counter-terrorism with

Farsi-speaking countries requires more advanced Farsi language learners, it

said.

学校表示，新疆与波斯语国家在贸易和反恐方面合作日益加强，需要更多的波斯语高级学习者。

Urdu is the official language of Pakistan. In 2013, China and Pakistan

started to build the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, a 3,000-km network of

roads, railways and pipelines linking Xinjiang’s Kashgar and southwest

Pakistan’s Gwadar Port.

乌尔都语是巴基斯坦的官方语言。

2013年，中国和巴基斯坦开始建设中国——巴基斯坦经济走廊，这是一条全长3000公里、连接新疆喀什和巴基斯坦瓜德尔港道路，铁路和管道的网络。