On July 7, under the guidance of the Chinese International Education Foundation, the Symposium on the 20th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Confucius Institute was jointly hosted by Lanzhou University(LZU) and Tashkent State University of Oriental Studies in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Zhao Leji, chairman of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech.