PUNE: Would scale of the “Great Wall” of your career? Learning the Chinese language. Hindi-Chini bhai bhai starts at acquiring deeper connotations in Pune, where a large number of managers of students, businessmen, companies and computer professionals were armed with Mandarin.

Are they importers door frame or students of foreign trade and management, an unprecedented 300-odd Puneites are currently learning of the Chinese language in various institutions. The shortage of teachers is also in Mumbai drawing students from the mainland in Pune.

Leaders of the pack is the symbiosis between the group of institutions which are not only the teaching of the language in three of its centers, but it has big plans for the creation of India, the first Ping Hanyu Shui Kaoshi ( HSK, considering the level of Chinese literally), the middle and seize international - Accepted Chinese certification tests.

For many years, the National Defence Academy (NDA) was the only place in Pune, where the Chinese language was taught. But now, the Symbiosis Institute of Foreign Language (SIFL), Institute of International Business (SIIB), Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development (SCMHRD), Sri Balaji Indian Society’s Centre for Management and Human Resource Development (ICMHRD) Crysalis and the Institute of Linguistics and Informatics (IFLC) are among those in basic and advanced courses-Chinese languages.

“It’s an acute shortage of teachers of the Chinese language in New Delhi, or that you saw, would have more courses and institutions that offer programs in Chinese,” Anneel Bhidey (41), the world’s largest Mandarin teachers said.

Qualified with a Bachelor and Master in Chinese, the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Bhidey is very popular among students and attracts Rs 500 per hour. He began informal learning Mandarin in the year 1995 by a retired Military Intelligence officer, after visiting his older brother in China on business and felt waves of excitement and opportunity.

Both Bhidey and Beena Menon, head SIFL, TOI said that the students know, the mandarin was always a preference in the labour market. “Doing Business with China, booming, and a lot of managing students, businessmen and representatives of companies are now learning Chinese,” said Menon.