BEIJING, Sept. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The following article was published today by China Daily.
In the past, it was widely agreed that Chinese was difficult to learn. Today, however, Chinese has a special appeal, and learning it feels like opening the door to a fresh new world. On TikTok, a video by Chinese American Sherry Zhu turned drinking hot water, wearing cotton slippers and brewing goji berries into a global trend, gaining her 740,000 followers in months. One user even memorized the character "呢" by breaking it into "o-p-t", to the delight of commenters. Chinese is moving from the classroom into everyday life worldwide. In many countries, even knowing Chinese can mean landing a well-paid job.
The numbers bear this out. According to China's Ministry of Education, 90 countries have incorporated Chinese into their national education systems, with nearly 210 million learners and users worldwide. In the first half of this year, 564,000 candidates sat for the Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK) globally, up 36 percent year on year.
Of course, economics is not the only driver. At this year's Chinese Bridge competition, Vietnam's Le Van Dai started with a self-study handbook, writing the character "我" a hundred times before Chinese poetry carried him all the way to the stage, "Tang and Song verse nourished my heart", he says.
Togo's Wang Jiayi discovered Chinese through martial artist Jackie Chan films, and later saw a different China in the TV series Meet Yourself — "those stories made my imagination of China more concrete day by day".
American contestant Ma Siwei calls himself a "challenge addict" who picked Chinese precisely because it is hard, teaching himself the bamboo flute and hulusi through online videos, and once performed Spring Festival Overture at a China-US concert.
Australia's Ava Gibbons visited China with her parents at the age of 12 and has studied the language for seven years. She performed a fish-lantern dance in hanfu and says the journey "closed the distance between me and China — not on the map, but between hearts".
Brazil's Song Yinuo stood on the Chinese Bridge stage for the first time, climbing the Great Wall and telling her teacher excitedly. For her, the competition was never just a contest but "real, vivid experiences" — "I came to know China through its language, met friends through conversation, and in each hands-on experience saw a bigger world and my own future".
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Chinese Bridge. Over the years, the competition has drawn Chinese-language enthusiasts from around the world. Right now, the secondary and primary school competitions are taking place in Tianjin, bringing together young people from over a hundred countries to make friends and see China through its language.
Twenty-five years ago, Chinese Bridge was just a competition. Today, it has become a phenomenon. When 210 million people learn Chinese, they are not merely absorbing grammar and vocabulary — they are encountering a China that is engaging with the world in ways both deep and daily. And through the eyes of these young people, China is being seen more clearly, and more truthfully, by the world.
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When 210 million people learn Chinese, they see more than a language
When 210 million people learn Chinese, they see more than a language
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Under the DUO POWER BOOST theme, Clivet made the global debut of its Next-Gen Magnetic Levitation Technology at AI Infra Summit 2026 in Santa Clara, California. The company also presented a portfolio of cooling sources, liquid cooling distribution, and supporting products for data centers, alongside a joint power-and-cooling coordination solution with CLOU.
According to the company, rising AI computing densities are placing growing pressure on data center cooling, with high-temperature performance degradation, energy efficiency bottleneck, and reliability risks as key challenges. General-purpose cooling technologies can no longer meet the specific needs of data centers, driving demand for AIDC-optimized thermal management solutions.
The portfolio's core is Clivet's next-generation magnetic levitation compressor, built on the DUO POWER BOOST dual-rotor variable-speed architecture. In a two-stage compression structure, two rotors and their impellers can adjust speed independently based on operating conditions, adapting to different flow rates and pressure ratios. According to Clivet, this design brings data center load variations, water temperature conditions, and system operating strategies into cooling source design, supporting optimization under complex conditions.
Addressing cooling needs across the data center, Clivet displayed a portfolio comprising magnetic levitation cooling sources, magnetic CDUs, high-capacity CDUs, fan walls, and terminal units. The air-cooled magnetic levitation chiller serves facility-side cooling, while the magnetic CDU combines cooling source and liquid cooling distribution functions.
A high-capacity CDU displayed at the event handles secondary-side heat exchange and distribution, with capacity ranging up to 3 MW (at 3K approach temperature difference, ATD) or 5 MW (at 5K ATD). Predictive temperature control keeps fluctuations within ±0.5°C, while key components support online replacement, helping ensure continuous operation in high-availability environments.
Through different product combinations, the solution can be configured according to project climate conditions, rack density, and supply requirements.
In addition, Clivet and CLOU jointly demonstrated a power-and-cooling coordination solution for AI workloads. CLOU provided energy storage and power delivery capabilities, while Clivet delivered thermal management products and solutions for high-density computing environments. For high-density computing projects, power configuration, thermal design, space layout, and operation and maintenance planning need to be considered simultaneously in the early stages of a project.
Coordinated planning of power and cooling aims to help customers assess the relationships between different infrastructure links from a system perspective, providing a reference for subsequent solution design and engineering delivery.
From a portfolio covering facility-side, liquid-cooling, and outdoor heat rejection stages, to the power-and-cooling coordination showcase, and to the launch of the next-generation magnetic levitation compressor, Clivet's appearance at the event presented its technology and product layout for data center thermal management.
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DUO POWER BOOST: Clivet Debuts Next-Gen Magnetic Levitation Technology and AI Cooling Portfolio at AI Infra Summit 2026
DUO POWER BOOST: Clivet Debuts Next-Gen Magnetic Levitation Technology and AI Cooling Portfolio at AI Infra Summit 2026
