With Chinese Government making it mandatory for its employees to learn at least one language of a neighbouring country other than Mandarin, under graduate Chinese students studying at Ahmedabad based Entrepreneurship Development Institute (EDI) are taking Hindi lessons for better prospects in career.
The story does not end here. The Chinese students not only learning the Indian National language but they are adopting Indian names as their second name. Some of them are set to translate the classic Hindi novels in the Mandarin. The Chinese students li Meng Xin, liang Yue ling, Wu Ze Peng have adopted Indian names such as Nalini, Diya and Anil respectively. Some other students of neighbouring country have also done the same. They are their second names given to them by their Hindi teachers at EDI Ahmedabad.
A group of 13 Chinese students from Yunnan Minzu University (YMU) and Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GUFS) are studying at EDI and pursuing a nine month program on Hindi language. They firmly believe that knowledge of Indian National language would help them in economic gain in future.