QUALIFIED Filipino teachers may now legally teach in China, following the release of the Philippine-China joint guidelines on the recruitment and deployment of English language teachers from the country, according to the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE).

Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello 3rd said on Wednesday that an initial 2,000 Filipino English language teachers would be deployed in the next two years as per the bilateral agreement signed between the two countries during President Rodrigo Duterte’s visit to China last April.