Xiamen Experimental Primary School and the Australian School of Contemporary Chinese (ASCC) established a sistership tie on May 23.
The cooperation is intended to broaden the horizon of teachers and students and popularize Chinese culture through rich exchange activities.
The ASCC, registered in 2003, is a non-profit language school providing Chinese language courses in Canberra.
It is authorized by China's Confucius Institute Headquarters to be the only school in Australia to serve as the test center of HSK, the Chinese Proficiency Test.
The ASCC established a sistership tie with Qiantang Primary School in Fuzhou this March.
Xiamen Experimental Primary School has been establishing partnerships with Taiwan’s primary schools and sistership ties with schools in Singapore and Hong Kong since 2006.
China has decided to extend its visa waiver policy to ordinary passport holders from Canada and the United Kingdom starting from Feb 17.
Forty-one new port-of-entry duty-free shops have been established nationwide, with Xiamen Xiang'an International Airport, Xiamen Wutong Passenger Wharf, and Xiamen International Cruise Center included on the list.
