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Xi'an International Studies University is one of the first four foreign language colleges established in New China, and it is the only general college in Northwest China with complete major foreign languages. In 1951, with the approval of the Ministry of Education of the Central People's Government, the Russian Department of Lanzhou University College of Letters, the Russian Division of the Department of Foreign Languages of Northwest University, and the Department of Russian Studies merged to form the predecessor of Xi'an International Studies University—Northwest Russian College. In 1952, the Russian language class of the Party School of the Northwest Bureau of the Communist Party of China was merged into the Northwest Russian Language College, and began to train foreign language talents at the undergraduate level for the country.
In 1958, it was renamed Xi'an International Studies University. It began to recruit graduate students in 1979 and was approved by the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council in 1986 to become a master's degree authorization unit. In 2006, approved by the Ministry of Education, the school was renamed Xi'an International Studies University. In 2011, it was listed by the Shaanxi Provincial People's Government as a key high-level university during the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period. In January 2013, it was approved by the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council to be a doctoral degree-granting unit, and was granted the right to confer a doctoral degree in foreign language and literature. In 2014, it was approved as a post-doctoral research mobile station. After more than 60 years of construction and development, the school has evolved from a single foreign language college to a multidisciplinary foreign language that highlights the characteristics of foreign language education and foreign humanities and social science research, with the humanities as the main body, and the coordinated development of social, management, and science. The transformation of universities is an important training base for foreign language talents in the western part of the country, and it plays an irreplaceable role in the field of foreign language education, teaching and research in the northwest.
The school covers an area of 1,593 acres with a building area of 801,000 square meters. The school vigorously promotes the construction of a smart campus, with full coverage of wired and wireless networks, rich high-quality network teaching resources, and public service platforms such as digital campuses are gradually established. It has smart classrooms, a multilingual translation experiment teaching center, an international financial investment and business comprehensive simulation experiment teaching center , Northeast Asia Research Multimodal Laboratory, Collaborative Innovation Laboratory and other modern laboratories, the school’s classroom multimedia facilities are equipped with a rate of 100%. The library's collection of documents covers 46 languages, including Chinese, English, French, Russian, German, Spanish, Japanese, and Arabic, 1,607 Chinese and foreign newspapers and periodicals, and 39 Chinese and foreign databases. The school has been awarded honorary titles such as "Safe Campus" and "Civilized Unit Model" in Shaanxi Province.
The school has 22 colleges (departments) and other teaching institutions, has a foreign language and literature doctoral degree authorization point, 13 second-level discipline doctoral programs and 1 post-doctoral research station, and jointly cultivates doctoral students with 8 foreign universities. There are 7 first-level master degree authorization sites for foreign language and literature, Chinese language and literature, business administration, pedagogy, journalism, Marxist theory, and applied economics, and 74 second-level subject degree authorization sites, translation, Chinese international There are 9 master's degree authorization points in education, tourism management, accounting, journalism, education, finance, international business, and art. There are 56 undergraduate majors and 7 minor majors, covering 7 disciplines of literature, economics, management, law, education, science, and art. The first-level disciplines of foreign language and literature are the characteristic disciplines of philosophy and social sciences in ordinary colleges and universities in Shaanxi Province. English language and literature, French language and literature, and German language and literature are key disciplines of Shaanxi Province; English and French majors are national-level professional comprehensive reform pilots, English, Russian, Five majors including French, Tourism Management, and Translation are national-level specialty majors, and majors in English, French, Accounting (ACCA), Tourism Management (English), Business Administration (CIMA), Finance, Human Geography and Urban-Rural Planning are provincial-level majors Professional comprehensive reform pilot program, 5 majors including English, German, French, Russian and Japanese are Shaanxi Province's famous majors, English, Russian, French, Spanish, tourism management, translation, German, accounting (ACCA direction), Japanese, etc. 9 The two majors are characteristic majors of Shaanxi Province, English, Russian, Japanese, translation, German, business English, tourism management, Chinese international education, Spanish, hotel management, Arabic, French, business management, finance, accounting, human geography 17 majors such as urban and rural planning and journalism are "first-class majors" in colleges and universities in Shaanxi Province; English writing is a national quality course, English intensive reading, English writing, English translation, French intensive reading, basic Japanese, German intensive reading, English simulation tour guide, Russian 16 courses such as translation, English literature, audiovisual listening and speaking, Chinese cultural interpretation, management, French literature history, translation and practice, international trade and practice, and business English writing are provincial-level quality courses; financial accounting has been rated as national-level bilingual Teaching demonstration courses, financial accounting and international business law were rated as provincial-level bilingual teaching demonstration courses; English writing was rated as a national quality resource sharing course, English conference interpretation, French audio-visual listening and speaking, financial accounting (bilingual), Business Analysis ), Introduction to Tourism Bilingual Course, Cross-cultural Human Resource Management, Finance, International Trade Practice, Economic Geography, Human Geography, Principles of Urban Planning, Foreign Language Teacher Education ESP Course, Tourism Geography, Management, English Writing, French 19 courses including translation, English literature, English translation, and French intensive reading were rated as provincial-level excellent resource sharing courses; "Application-oriented translation talent training model innovation experimental zone" was rated as national talent training model innovation experimental zone, "International Business "Applied Translation", "International Tourism", "Internationalized Foreign Language Teacher Education", "International Accounting", "Internationalized Applied Financial Talents", "French Applied", "Internationalized English", "Human Geography and Urban-Rural Planning" and "International Business Management (CIMA)" and other 10 talent training model innovation experimental areas were rated as provincial-level talent training model innovation experimental areas; French literature and translation teaching team is a national teaching team, French literature and translation, Chinese and foreign tourism culture, international business, Translation, English Writing Series Courses, Business Administration Major Courses, Tourism Law Theory and Practice, English and American Literature Series Courses, French Intensive Reading, Accounting (ACCA), Business Administration (CIMA), Finance (CFA) International Innovation, International Trade 15 teaching teams including bilingualism, regional tourism and urban-rural community planning, and tourism operation management are provincial-level teaching teams team. 2 provincial-level innovation and entrepreneurship education reform pilot colleges, and 2 provincial-level experimental teaching demonstration centers. "Research Innovation and Practice of Translation Professional Teaching Model", "Innovation and Practice of International Business Talent Training Model", "Innovation and Practice of International Language Service Talent Collaborative Training System" won the special prize of Shaanxi Provincial Teaching Achievement Award. The school cooperated with Global Times Online (Beijing) Cultural Communication Co., Ltd. to establish a literary practice education base and was successively approved as a national and provincial off-campus practice education base for college students. The management practice education base established in cooperation with Xi’an Pepsi-Cola Beverage Co., Ltd. was approved. Off-campus practice education base for university students. The school is recommended for excellent undergraduate students to study for master's degree without examination, non-speaking language pre-batch admissions colleges, and acceptance qualification colleges. There are currently 20,000 doctoral students, master students, undergraduates, foreign students and various training students.
The school has strong scientific research strength. The Polish Research Center and the Northeast Asian Research Center have been filed by the Ministry of Education's National and Regional Research Centers. The Belt and Road Language Service Collaborative Innovation Center is the Shaanxi Province 2011 Collaborative Innovation Center, the European and American Literature Research Center, Foreign Linguistics and Applied Languages The Science Research Center is a key research base of philosophy and social sciences in Shaanxi (university). It has 35 university-level research centers, including the Language Big Data Research Center, the American Research Institute, and the Translation Teaching and Research Center. It has formed a relatively complete and large-scale foreign language and The interdisciplinary scientific research system has undertaken a number of scientific research projects funded by the national, provincial and ministerial levels and the Ministry of Culture of foreign countries, and published high-quality large-scale dictionaries, monographs, translations, papers and teaching materials. Academic journals such as "Foreign Language Teaching", "Human Geography", and "Journal of Xi'an International Studies University" established by the school are core journals of Chinese humanities and social sciences and Chinese geography that have a certain influence in the academic circles at home and abroad. Among them, "Foreign Language Teaching" and "Human Geography" The magazine has been selected as CSSCI source journals for many years, and "Journal of Xi'an International Studies University" is an extended version of CSSCI source journals. "Foreign Language Teaching" and "Human Geography" have been consecutively awarded as "China's Outstanding International Influential Academic Journal" and "China's Most Internationally Influential Academic Journal".
The school insists on giving full play to its own advantages, extensively carrying out international exchanges and cooperation, and has successively signed cooperation agreements with 216 higher education institutions and scientific research institutions in 42 countries and regions including the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and Russia. , To implement joint training programs for talents at different levels of study, master and doctorate; to carry out academic exchange and cooperation projects such as teacher and student exchange, mutual recognition of credits, mutual award of degrees, and joint international conferences; to introduce overseas internship projects from the United States, Germany, Japan and Hong Kong. The school has been designated by the Ministry of Education as a designated institution for the China-US Fulbright Program of the China Scholarship Council, and a partner institution for the outstanding undergraduate study abroad program for young backbone teachers. It is an entrusted training unit for foreign students receiving national government scholarship programs . The school actively responded to the national strategy of building the Silk Road Economic Belt, established the Central Asia Institute to carry out the education of international students in Central Asian countries, established the "Belt and Road" national regional research center, and was approved by the Ministry of Education to hold the Arabic language and literature major with the University of Sharjah, UAE Sino-foreign cooperative education project for undergraduate education. The school has established 3 Confucius Institutes in the United States, Kazakhstan and Argentina. In 2012, the establishment of a multilingual base (Xi'an) for the international promotion of Chinese was approved by Hanban. The school cooperated with Humboldt State University in the United States to establish the Humboldt College of the West, and cooperated with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and the Association of Management Accountants in the establishment of ACCA teaching reform classes, CIMA teaching reform classes, and CFA teaching reform classes. The Russian language was jointly established with the Novosibirsk State University of Technology, Russia Cultural Center, the Sino-German Institute was jointly established with the University of Münster in Germany; the Korean Cultural Institute, the German Goethe Institute, and the U.S. Pucheng English Group set up "Sejong Academy", "Goethe Language Center" and "Qin Susan English Center" in the school. In addition, the school also has the Ministry of Education's Study Abroad Training Department, the China Scholarship Council's Study Abroad Preparatory Education Center, and the China (Ministry of Education) Study Abroad Service Center Study Abroad Training Base.
The school has made great efforts to improve the quality of talent training and has achieved obvious results. Xiwai’s graduates have been welcomed by employers for their "solid foreign language skills, strong communication skills, high overall quality, quick adaptation to work, dedication and love for work, hard work, and potential for development". The employment rate of graduates has remained relatively high for many years. High level. The school volunteer group actively serves the social, economic and cultural development. College students participated in volunteer work for major events such as the Beijing Olympics, Shanghai World Expo, Xi'an World Horticultural Exposition, Shenzhen Universiade, Nanjing Youth Olympics, Eurasian Economic Forum, Rio Olympics, etc. , The school volunteer team was awarded "China's Hundred Excellent Volunteer Service Collectives" and many other honors.
In order to meet the needs of my country’s social development and economic construction, the school will seize the historical opportunities of the great development of national higher education and the development of the western region, adhering to the school motto of “patriotism, diligence, knowledge and innovation”, and promote the “integration of Chinese and foreign countries, good morals and good faith”. The spirit of “Together and self-improvement”, “based on Shaanxi, serving the northwest, radiating the country, and facing the world”, adhere to the open and international road of running schools, continuously deepen teaching reform, improve the quality of education and teaching, and build a high level with distinctive characteristics University and hard work!