Which one below is true according to the news?

The prime minister，David Cameron，is urging today’s youngsters to look beyond the traditional French and German lessons to concentrate on the tongue of the future—Mandarin.Cameron said that a partnership between the British Council and Hanban—the Chinese National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language—will double the number of Chinese language assistants in the UK by 2016 and provide increased funding to lower the cost to schools of offering Mandarin as a language option.