Picking up Mandarin

One family: SJK(C) Pandamaran A, Port Klang, Year One students (from left) Gan Wei Ling, Nor Afiqah Hassan, Anastasia Shasmecta Ann, Muhammad Izz Rayyan, Bughalarav Muthu and Falix Lee posing for a photo in January this year. – KK SHAM/The Star

CHINA’S expeditious economic rise to power has garnered attention from people worldwide including Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

He described China as a “great country” during a question and answer session – where he spoke entirely in Mandarin – at the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management Advisory Board in 2014.