Germany, the leading European Union (EU) country, is powerful in manufacturing industry, and plays an important role in various domains of Sino-Eurocooperation, such as promoting Euro investment plan, and providing positivesupport to China’s “The Belt and Road Initiative”. With the rapid economic growthand frequent communication and exchanges between Germany and China, the demandfor talents who are proficient in German or have German culture background is increasing. Therefore, more and more schools have integrated the Germanlanguage into its regular curriculum as a second foreign language.

In 2009, the German language program has been founded in Guangzhou Huamei International School (HMIS), and a specialized German classin Grade 4 was opened in 2013, which provides students with not only the opportunity to study German language, but also to learn German culture through diversified activities. In the September of 2016, we are planing to continuethe German Language Featured Class in Secondary section, and it will also bethe first secondary school German Featured program within Guangzhou.

On April 15th, 2016, it was our great honor having Ms.Liu Linrui (Director of Guangzhou Education Bureau Basic Education Division),Mr. Chen Shugen (Director of Public Relations Department & Foreign AffairsOffice) and Mr. Jörg Drenkelfort (DSD School Coordinator of Southern China) to have a discussion with us on Huamei School’s FeaturedGerman Language Class development. Ms. Liu Linrui said that Guangzhou Education Bureau shows supportive attitudes to HMIS’ diversified educational programs, including the German language program in its Primary and Secondary section.Guangzhou Education Bureau is working on the preliminary research currently,and hopes to explore the possibility of appropriate foreign language policiesfor the German program students’ writing Zhongkao (High School Entrance Examination)in the future.