Chinese yoga lovers gathered together to celebrate yoga in more than a dozen places across China including the Great Wall in Beijing.
The Great Wall event was attended by minister of state for external affairs V.K.Singh, who joined other enthusiasts in practising the asanas along with Amit Narang, deputy chief of mission at the Indian Embassy in Beijing.
The Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, a quasi-government organisation, also participated in the event.
Yoga Day celebrations began in different parts of China last month, which saw local governments in small towns staging yoga events in innovative fashion.
State media published pictures of yoga practitioners conducting asanas within empty rows in a vast sunflower garden in Shilling township in China’s Hebei province.
A Chinese university, the Yunnan Minzu University, has announced that it will offer a master’s degree in yoga in its India-China Yoga College from the end of this year.
It will enrol 30 yoga graduates for the master’s program, and attract another 40 students for its yoga undergraduate program.
China has hundreds of yoga schools in its different provinces. Many of the teachers have learned from visiting Indian gurus or attended courses in India.
There has been some concern about the manner in which yoga is taught in a section of the schools but Indian gurus report that there is a huge improvement in education standards of late.
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