During a chat with university students in China, Mark Zuckerberg stunned his audience when he spoke in fluent Mandarin.
Facebook co-founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, surprised an audience of students in Beijing, when he spoke in fluent Mandarin language.
Though he did not discuss the ban of the social media site in full details during his Question and Answer session at the prestigious Tsinghua University, but an indirect reference elicited laughter from the audience.
Zuckerberg, whose company has long sought to enter the Chinese market, highlighted that Facebook already helps some Chinese companies in foreign markets.
According to Daily Mail report, during the chat, the forum facilitator and a Facebook employee, Wei Xiaoliang, asked: "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?"
"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 who married Chinese-American, Priscilla Chan in 2012, set for himself the goal of learning Mandarin in 2010.
According to him, he wanted to learn the language partly because his wife's grandmother who only speaks Chinese.
He said: "Priscilla and I decided to get married, so I told her grandmother in Chinese, and she was very surprised."
Zuckerberg 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," he added.
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