Xu Lin, director general of Chinese Language Council or Hanban and Chief Executive of Confucius Institutes Headquarters, delivers a speech at the 2010 Joint Conference of Confucius Institutes in Asia held in Singapore June 26, 2010. The three-day conference drew more than 100 Confucius Institutes' directors and representatives from 10 countries and regions in East Asia and South-East Asia. [Xinhua]