'Speaking of China, I have a more difficult question for Mark, which I hope will not get me fired. What are Facebook's plans in China?' asked the forum facilitator and Facebook employee Wei Xiaoliang.of which facebook boss replied...
'We are already in China,' Zuckerberg said in Chinese, to more laughter. 'We help Chinese companies gain customers abroad.'
'We want to help the rest of the world connect to China.'
Zuckerberg married Chinese-American Priscilla Chan in 2012, and set himself the goal of learning Mandarin in 2010.
He said that he wanted to learn the language partly because his wife's grandmother only speaks Chinese.
'Priscilla and I decided to get married, so I told her grandmother in Chinese, and she was very surprised,' Zuckerberg said.
He said China is a great country and hopes that learning the language will help him learn its culture. 'The Chinese language is difficult, and I speak English, but I like challenges,' Zuckerberg said.
He met Tuesday with Tsinghua President Chen Jining to discuss cooperation in education, according to a statement by Tsinghua.
Zuckerberg's Chinese pronunciation was far from fluent and some native speakers said it was a 'challenge' to understand him.
But he was able to maintain intelligible conversation for a half-hour and the students responded with warm cheers for his effort and laughter at his humor.
Li Qin, a computer programmer from the eastern city of Hangzhou, said in an online chat that she could barely understand Zuckerberg's Chinese.
'It was a challenge for Chinese listening comprehension. But even though Facebook cannot enter the Chinese market, Mark is still making a fighting effort to learn
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