{"id":4991,"date":"2026-09-24T20:24:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T20:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/konfucij.ukim.edu.mk\/?p=4991"},"modified":"2026-09-24T20:25:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T20:25:02","slug":"the-chinese-bridge-competition-2026-flashback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/konfucij.ukim.edu.mk\/?p=4991&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"The Chinese Bridge Competition 2026 Flashback"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Chinese Bridge 2026 for Middle School was held from September 8 to 22 in Beijing and Tianjin. Jana Aleksova won a scholarship for one semester in China, while her teacher Daniela Eftimova received a Certificate of Honor.\u00a0Ilina Siljanovska represented North Macedonia&#8217;s Primary School Category received a Certificate of Honor for her participation, which marked a great success for her. Previously in August, Zhanina Bogevska (\u767d\u77e5\u5b81) on behalf of College Students from North Macedonia also got a Certificate of Honor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jana shares about how the journey boosted her confidence, broadened her worldview, and motivated her to continue learning Chinese. Daniela reflected on her own studies in China and how they shaped her passion for teaching and building cultural bridges between Macedonia and China.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Confucius Institute at Skopje, welcomes more Macedonian students to learn Chinese language and culture and share in the joy of friendship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"4992\"  src=\"https:\/\/konfucij.ukim.edu.mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Ilina1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/konfucij.ukim.edu.mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Ilina1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/konfucij.ukim.edu.mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Ilina1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/konfucij.ukim.edu.mk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Ilina1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, 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Jana Aleksova won a scholarship for one semester in China, while her teacher Daniela Eftimova received a Certificate of Honor.\u00a0Ilina Siljanovska represented North Macedonia&#8217;s Primary School Category received a Certificate of Honor for her participation, which marked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[70,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/konfucij.ukim.edu.mk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/konfucij.ukim.edu.mk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/konfucij.ukim.edu.mk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konfucij.ukim.edu.mk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konfucij.ukim.edu.mk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/konfucij.ukim.edu.mk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5004,"href":"https:\/\/konfucij.ukim.edu.mk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991\/revisions\/5004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/konfucij.ukim.edu.mk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konfucij.ukim.edu.mk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konfucij.ukim.edu.mk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}