Over 200 volunteers have registered to teach Chinese abroad in a project initiated by the Guangdong provincial overseas exchange association.

The association will set up a database of the volunteers to match them with the invitations and requests from abroad, said Lu Weixiong, director of the Guangdong provincial overseas exchange association, at a forum held here Saturday on the volunteer work.

Most of the volunteers have a high level of education, with 12 percent of them having master degrees and 62 percent having bachelor degrees. They have worked as teachers, civil servants, reporters and engineers.

The project was launched in August. Since July 2001, the association have sent volunteers to help Chinese teachers in Indonesia.

Many people in other countries are interested in learning Chinese and more volunteers are needed, Lu said.

Guangdong Province is home to many overseas Chinese.

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