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Swedish students need Chinese lessons: minister

STOCKHOLM--Within a decade, all Swedish primary schools should offer Chinese lessons, Sweden's education minister was quoted as saying Wednesday, insisting the move was needed to improve competitiveness.

“I want to see Sweden become the first country in Europe to introduce instruction in Chinese as a foreign language at all primary and secondary schools,” said Jan Bjoerklund, who heads the Progress Party, a junior member of the center-right ruling coalition.

Getting Swedish pupils to learn Chinese is vital to strengthening Swedish competitiveness, the education minister told financial daily Dagens Industri.

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