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Xi'an Institute of Translation and Interpretation was founded by Mr. Ding Zuyi, an outstanding contemporary educator and pioneer of private education in my country. The school is located at the foot of the scenic Zhongnan Mountain in the southern suburbs of Xi'an. Its predecessor was the Xi'an Translation Training Institute founded in 1987. In 2000, it was approved by the Shaanxi Provincial People's Government to establish Xi'an Translation Vocational College to implement full-time higher vocational education. In 2005, it was upgraded to an undergraduate university approved by the Ministry of Education and renamed Xi'an Institute of Translation and Interpretation. Obtained the right to confer bachelor's degree in 2009. In 2013, he successfully passed the qualification assessment of undergraduate teaching work by the Ministry of Education. In 2014, it was inspected and diagnosed by the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government. In the same year, it was identified as the first batch of applied transformation pilot colleges by the Provincial Department of Education. In 2016, it was approved as a pilot institution of "Management and Evaluation" in Shaanxi Province. In 2018, it was evaluated as the first-class college construction unit in Shaanxi Province by the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Education. After 30 years of school-running practice, it has developed into a private university with major influences and distinctive features, with a focus on liberal arts and business, foreign languages as its characteristics, coordinated development of multiple disciplines.
The school has always adhered to the western translation spirit of "dare to be the first, selfless dedication, love for children, and ethics"; actively practice the concept of "noble education"; adhere to the "non-profit-oriented socialist public welfare school direction"; Continuously innovate the application of "foreign language + professional + modern skills" and "professional + foreign language + modern skills", the training mode of compound talents, and the strict student management mode of "fully enclosed and paramilitary". At the end, the staged development goal of building a private university with a local demonstration role.
The school has 12 schools including English School, Asia-Europe Language School, School of Education, School of Business, School of Arts, School of Art, School of Engineering and Technology, School of Translation and Training, School of Health and Sports, School of Marxism, School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and School of Continuing Education. Colleges, Sports Departments, and Public Art Education Centers. The college offers 36 undergraduate majors and 24 junior majors, covering eight disciplines including liberal arts, economics, management, engineering, art, law, education, and medicine.
The school has established more than ten research institutions including Shaanxi Zhongnan Society, Translation Research Institute, Calligraphy and Painting Art Research Institute, E-commerce Operation Research Center, and Shaanxi Tourism Culture Research Center. There are 5 provincial-level first-class majors, 5 provincial-level professional comprehensive reform pilot projects, 10 provincial-level key, characteristic majors, and key support majors, 15 provincial-level quality resource sharing courses, 6 provincial-level teaching teams, and provincial-level majors 6 excellent textbooks, 6 provincial-level talent training model innovation experimental areas, 4 provincial-level experimental teaching demonstration centers, 2 provincial-level virtual simulation experimental teaching centers, 5 provincial-level teaching achievement awards, and provincial-level teaching reform research projects 19 Items; There are 9 school-level professional comprehensive reform pilot projects, 8 school-level specialty majors, 39 school-level quality courses, 21 school-level teaching teams, 25 school-level teaching teachers, school-level talent training model innovation experimental area 7 and 5 school-level experimental teaching demonstration centers.
The school has always adhered to the direction of socialist education, supported by the spirit of Western translation, based on cultural education, actively promoted the core socialist values, and worked hard to develop campus culture. Relying on the Zhongnan Society, the school organizes the Zhongnan lecture hall, establishes academic journals such as "Journal of Xi'an Institute of Translation and Interpretation" and "Shaanxi Zhongnan Culture Research", edits and publishes series of books such as "Western Translation Collection" and "Zhongnan Library". The school adheres to the trinity education model of "knowledge, ability, and quality". Regularly hold Spring and Autumn Poetry Fairs, "Humanistic World" cultural performances, Mid-Autumn Festival Gala, New Year's Day Gala, etc. 50 student associations carry out a variety of campus cultural activities, strengthen the construction of the second classroom, and comprehensively improve the comprehensive quality of students. By beautifying the campus environment, creating a humanistic atmosphere, promoting various discipline competitions, strengthening personality training and paramilitary management, a unique campus culture has been formed. In recent years, students have won more than a thousand awards from national, provincial, and municipal university student science and technology, cultural and sports competitions.
The school fully implements the newly revised "Private Education Promotion Law", and in accordance with the "three mechanisms" proposed by the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee, it is the first to break the family tradition of private education and build a "four-in-one" modern university operating mechanism: the organizer owns The legal person’s property supervision and management power, the board of directors has the decision-making power, the school administration committee independently exercises the management power of the school, the school party committee plays the role of political core and supervision and protection, and has achieved a major breakthrough in the scientific and standardized management of private higher education. It is determined to mobilize the enthusiasm of all parties in the school. It is of far-reaching significance to unswervingly follow the path of connotation development, characteristic development, brand development, and integrated development.
The school has included the construction of "first-class colleges and first-class majors" in its schedule since the beginning of 2016, and has actively carried out its creation work. In order to improve the level and level of teachers, the positions of "Zhongnan Scholar" and "Chief Professor" have been established; through the improvement of teacher evaluation and incentive mechanisms, the "Teacher Ability Improvement Plan" and "Young and Middle-aged Teacher Doctoral Project" have been vigorously carried out. The construction of "double first-class" provides talent guarantee.
According to its own characteristics and the new normal of development, the school grasps the "One Belt One Road" strategy, adheres to the "four cooperation, five common", deepens school-enterprise cooperation, and cooperates with Shaanxi Provincial Council for the Promotion of International Trade, Alibaba Group, Beijing Guanghui Jintong Education Technology Co., Ltd., etc. More than 200 governments, enterprises and institutions have signed in-depth strategic cooperation agreements or implemented order-based training, forming a new type of cooperative education mode of in-depth integration of production and education with resource co-construction, full participation, and mutual benefit; the school has built a "one core, two Platform, three-level, full-process" practical teaching system, forming a practical teaching model integrating "teaching, learning, and doing", creating an all-foreign language atmosphere, focusing on building three major service applications: language service, education service, and health service Group, build a "Language Big Data Think Tank Platform" (with an investment of about 20 million yuan in software and hardware), and cultivate application-oriented senior professionals who serve the needs of regional economic and social development.
The school insists on opening up schools and actively develops inter-school exchanges and cooperation. Established supportive relationships with universities in the province such as Northwest University, Xi'an Institute of Communication of the People's Liberation Army, and Yan'an University. It has established friendly exchanges and cooperation relations with more than 50 universities in more than a dozen countries and regions including the United States, Canada, Japan, Germany, Spain, South Korea, and Hong Kong. In recent years, more than 1,000 people have gone abroad to study for a master's degree; more than a hundred teachers and students have gone to Eastern Europe and Australia as visiting scholars and studying abroad. The college has organized teachers and students to participate in the International Youth Development Summit Forum for many times. It has also invited many domestic and foreign experts and professors, including the Chief Member of the European Parliament, Dr. Robert George Karthus, to come to the college to give reports, and continuously strengthen academic exchanges and cooperation. The school has established a cooperative relationship with the local government of the United States for students to go to the United States for internships, and more than 1,200 students have gone to the United States for internships. The school actively implements the Central Province’s strategic deployment of strengthening educational exchanges and cooperation with the “Belt and Road” countries, and makes full use of the advantages and characteristics of foreign language, business, tourism and other professional teaching. It has successively cooperated with Hungary, Russia, Ukraine, Thailand and other countries along the route. Educational administrative departments, colleges and universities and other educational institutions have carried out various cultural and educational exchange activities. At the same time, scientific research institutions such as the New Silk Road Research Center and the Hungarian Research Center have been established to vigorously carry out national and regional research to provide reference for the decision-making of relevant government departments and enterprises.
The school’s unique talent training model, strict paramilitary management, and good talent training quality have received widespread attention from all walks of life and full affirmation by leaders at all levels, and has won a good social reputation as "to learn Western translation". Over the years, the employment rate of school graduates has been around 95%. Employers generally believe that our graduates have “high foreign language proficiency, strong comprehensive ability, professionalism and innovation consciousness”, “go down, keep it, and observe discipline.” , Good cooperation". Li Lanqing, Li Jianguo, Chen Zhili, Jiang Zhenghua, Abulaiti Abdurexiti, Zhao Zhengyong, Zhuang Changxing and many other leaders from the central and provincial and municipal governments visited the school and highly praised our school’s training model, management model, and school running Characteristics and quality of talent training. The school was awarded the titles of "Civilized Campus", "Safe Campus", "Advanced Primary Party Committee of Higher Education Institutions" in Shaanxi Province, "Safety Unit" and "Advanced Unit of Comprehensive Management" in Xi'an City; for 8 consecutive years, it has been awarded "National Food Safety" by six central ministries and commissions "Top 100 Advanced Unit", "National Food Safety Demonstration Unit" and other honorary titles; the school also won the "Advanced Unit of Network Information Security Management", "Most Comprehensive Strength Private Colleges" and "Most Employment Quality Award" and other honorary titles. In recent "APEC Voices of the Future" China selection competitions, five students from our school, namely Zheng Yue, Yang Xin, Ding Qianwen, Gong Chen, and Yang Pengkai, have been qualified to attend the APEC summit with the top leaders of the country on behalf of the Chinese youth. CCTV, "Guangming Daily", "China Education News", Shaanxi Daily, Sohu.com and other media have followed up and reported on the school's teaching construction and reform.
Xi’an Institute of Translation and Interpretation will take the “double first-class” construction as an opportunity to continue to promote excellent school-running traditions, strengthen school-running characteristics, fully implement the school’s 13th Five-Year Plan, and continuously improve the quality of education and teaching. "To build the school into a private university with a local demonstration role.