Zhejiang Yuexiu University of Foreign Languages

Zhejiang Yuexiu University of Foreign Languages is a full-time general undergraduate university approved by the Ministry of Education. The school is located in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, one of the first batch of historical and cultural cities, the famous Jiangnan water town, and Lu Xun’s hometown. It was founded in 1981 and was upgraded to an undergraduate university approved by the Ministry of Education in 2008.

　　 The school has two campuses, Jishan and Jinghu, covering an area of nearly 1,300 acres and a campus building area of more than 420,000 square meters; the library has more than 1.82 million paper books and more than 1.14 million electronic books.

　　The school adheres to the strategy of “Strengthening the School with Talents”. There are more than 1,000 faculty members, of which more than 80% are full-time teachers with master's and doctoral degrees, and about 34% are teachers with senior professional titles. The school is implementing the "High-level Talent Introduction Program", "Doctoral Introduction and Cultivation "Double Hundred Project", "Young and Middle-aged Key Teacher Training Program", teachers' overseas training programs, and the establishment of the "Zhang Juchang Education Award", etc. The dimensional and multi-level platform strives to provide strong talent guarantee for the growth of students and the construction and development of the school. At present, there are more than 100 foreign teachers from the United States, Britain, Canada, South Korea, Japan and other countries, including 25 foreign teachers with doctoral degrees.

The school has English School, Oriental Language School, Western Language School, International Business School, Internet Communication School, Chinese Language and Culture School, Hotel Management School, Indianapolis University International School, International Student Education School, Continuing Education School, and Marxism School There are 11 secondary colleges, including 34 undergraduate majors, covering 5 disciplines including literature, engineering, economics, management, and art, including English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese , Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Indonesian, Thai, Czech and other 13 foreign languages, Zhejiang Province currently offers the most foreign languages, and is also the only undergraduate college in the province that offers Indonesian and Thai majors. It cultivates foreign language talents in minor languages Shanghai has rich school resources and brand advantages.

　　 The school has formed a discipline and professional layout with literature as the mainstay, economics and management as two wings, multi-disciplinary integration and coordinated development. Foreign language and literature is the first-class discipline in Zhejiang Province, foreign linguistics and applied linguistics, French language and literature are the key disciplines of Shaoxing City; Korean language is the key discipline of Zhejiang Province and the province’s "Twelfth Five-Year" advantage major, English, French, and communication , International Economics and Trade, 4 majors are emerging specialty of Zhejiang Province, and 2 majors of English and Japanese are characteristic (key) majors of Shaoxing City.

　　 The school is a member of the "United Nations Academic Influence" organization, and its level of scientific research, teaching and research has been continuously improved. In 2017, the school established a project to host 9 National Social Science Funds (including 1 key project) and 12 provincial and ministerial scientific research projects. The "Northeast Asia Research Center" is the base (for the record) of the "National and Regional Research Center" of the Ministry of Education. The Internet "Public Opinion Research Center" and "Dayu and Traditional Chinese Culture Research Center" are the key research bases of philosophy and social sciences in Shaoxing City, and the "Dayu and Traditional Culture Research Innovation Team" is the key innovation team of Shaoxing City. The school’s teaching equipment is advanced and complete, with 1 provincial-level foreign language experimental teaching center, 4 municipal-level experimental teaching demonstration centers, equipped with simultaneous translation laboratories, language laboratories, international economics and trade professional laboratories, and business management professional experiments Laboratory, network editing professional laboratory, video and photo editing professional laboratory and other teaching experimental facilities and equipment; there are foreign language learning salons, foreign language cultural experience rooms, Japanese tea ceremony houses, experimental hotels, and SPT foreign language culture street and other campuses to experience foreign cultures. Cultural facilities; the establishment of an entrepreneurship college, and vigorously expand the off-campus teaching practice training base, creating complete conditions for practical teaching.

With the vision of "creating an outstanding brand of private universities in China, and building a century-old school", the school adheres to the "application-oriented, international, and high-level" school positioning and the belief of "aspirational, down-to-earth, based on the ordinary, and the pursuit of excellence". The development concept of innovation, coordination, greenness, openness and sharing, with the guiding principles of “standardized school management, quality school establishment, talented school building, scientific research strong school, and characteristic school building” as the guidelines for running a school, focusing on the promotion of innovation-driven strategies, "foreign language + "Strategy, Disciplinary Differentiation Development Strategy, Talent Strategy to Strengthen Schools, International Characteristic Strategy" and other "Five Strategies", strive to cultivate applied compound talents with "international vision, Chinese feelings, and sense of social responsibility".

In recent years, the school has been committed to exploring and practicing the SPT application-oriented talent training system, and fully implementing the "foreign language +" talent training strategy, so that foreign language students have a solid professional knowledge of foreign languages, and at the same time they have a relatively systematic grasp of business, economics, management, and Knowledge in journalism and communication; non-foreign language majors should have a more comprehensive grasp of foreign language application skills while studying the major, so as to meet the needs of economic and social development for diversified and compound talents. Due to the accurate positioning of talent training, the employment rate of our school’s graduates has been among the top universities in Zhejiang Province for ten consecutive years, and the quality of graduates has been fully affirmed by the society and employers.

　　 The school has vigorously promoted the strategy of internationalization, and the results of international cooperation in running schools have been remarkable. In the overall level of internationalization of Zhejiang colleges and universities released by the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education, the school has ranked top in the "Overall Level of Internationalization of Other Undergraduate Colleges in Zhejiang Province" for three consecutive years. At present, the school’s international cooperation projects have covered 13 foreign languages, with 27 countries and regions including the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Poland, and Taiwan. 120 universities or institutions have established substantive and friendly cooperative relations. Each year, more than 700 students are sent abroad (overseas) for long-term and short-term language and cultural exchanges, and overseas study programs such as undergraduate double degrees, undergraduate and master's degree programs are carried out; 400 foreign students are enrolled each year Around.

Under the guidance of the school motto of "Hecheng·Yuxiu" and the campus culture of "Confidence, Harmony, Competitiveness, and Humanities", the school has launched a variety of student activities with international characteristics, and formed the first college instructor team of colleges and universities in Zhejiang Province. There are currently more than 200 student instructors. The undergraduate instructor team undertakes the school's annual military training tasks for freshmen, actively participates in class management, and at the same time has become a benchmark for practicing socialist core values and a beautiful landscape for campus culture construction. In September 2014, the Zhejiang Provincial Military Region Teaching Brigade awarded the school as the only college student instructor training center in the province-the “Zhejiang National Defense Education Base College Student Instructor Training Center”. In 2017, the school was appraised by the Ministry of Education as a "Special School for National Defense Education".

The school advocates the volunteer spirit of "dedication, friendship, mutual assistance, and progress" for college students, and comprehensively develops various voluntary and volunteer services, including "Community Volunteers" as a course for credits, serving the World Internet Conference for three consecutive years, and being the only one outside Hangzhou to be selected Colleges and universities provided translation volunteer services for the G20 Hangzhou Summit, demonstrating the beautiful demeanor of Yuexiu University Student Volunteers. They were commended by the China Youth Volunteers Association and the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government as the "Advanced Volunteer Service Group", forming a voluntary service with "Yuexiu characteristics" Brand.

On the afternoon of May 13, 2015, Comrade Xia Baolong, then Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, came to the school to investigate the school’s running situation and pointed out: “Yuexiu is very dynamic. Continue to move forward on the road, and develop better and better." Secretary Xia Baolong’s evaluation is not only a full affirmation of the school’s operation, but also an earnest expectation for the future development of the school.

Standing at the forefront of the reform and development of higher education, under the guidance of innovative, coordinated, green, open, and shared development concepts, the school is advancing with a more confident and open attitude to create a "double first-class" Chinese private university and build a "Yuexiu" China's private university is struggling to become an outstanding brand!