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Beijing International Studies University is a well-known university with the advantages of foreign language and literature and tourism management, and the coordinated development of literature, management, economics, law and other disciplines. It is the teaching and research of foreign languages, translation, tourism, economics and trade in China. Important base.
Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute was established in October 1964 on the basis of the original Xinhua News Agency Foreign Language Cadre School on the proposal of Premier Zhou Enlai himself. It is the first batch of colleges for undergraduate admissions in the country. He has successively been under the leadership of the National Foreign Cultural Liaison Committee, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Beijing Municipal People's Government, the Ministry of Education and the National Tourism Administration. In February 2000, it was placed under the management of the Beijing Municipal People's Government.
Since the establishment of the school, the school has been adhering to the school motto of "Mentality, Diligence, Seeking Truth, and Competitiveness", and has taken "Inheriting Eastern and Western Civilization, Promoting Sino-foreign Exchanges" as its mission, and has formed a style of study of "Integrating Chinese and Foreign, Knowing and Doing" and "Harmony". The teaching style of "Thinking and Human Culture" has accumulated a profound academic tradition, has unique experience in running a school, and has produced a group of famous teachers. The early senior translators of New China Li Yueran, Su Qi, Zhou Xiqing, Dong Leshan, Guan Zhenhu, Li Chuansong, Wang Zhiyou, Wang Wenjiong, Shu Yu, etc. all worked and taught in the school.
school is located in Chaoyang District, Beijing, adjacent to the Central Business District (CBD) to the west and Beijing Sub-City (Tongzhou) to the east. There are nearly 10,000 students of various types, including more than 6,300 undergraduates, more than 1,300 postgraduates, more than 1,000 international students, and more than 1,000 Guanpei students. There are 22 colleges, 1 department, and 2 teaching assistant units. The library currently has a collection of more than 1.17 million books, and annually subscribes about 200 original newspapers and periodicals in foreign languages (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan), and about 850 Chinese newspapers and periodicals; more than 210,000 e-books; 45 Chinese databases, 44 foreign language databases, and self-built databases Three.
The school has 13 first-level disciplines, 44 undergraduate majors (including 26 language majors), 25 second-level disciplines for master's degree authorization, 6 professional master's degree authorization points, 5 master's degree authorization first-level disciplines, joint training 2 doctoral programs (jointly cultivate a doctor of translation with Binghamton University in the United States, and jointly cultivate a doctor of tourism with the University of South Carolina in the United States), 2 post-doctoral research workstations (respectively jointly with the Social Sciences Literature Press and the Capital University of Economics and Business) Built). 1 first-class major in Beijing (translation major), 4 key construction disciplines in Beijing (foreign language and literature, tourism management, corporate management, international trade), 4 national-level specialty majors (Japanese, Arabic, English, tourism management) 1. One pilot program for comprehensive professional reform of the Ministry of Education (Japanese).
The school adheres to the orientation of serving the national strategy and the needs of the capital, and takes the cultivation of "multilingual multilingual, cross-professional compound" high-level and application-oriented talents with international perspectives and family and country feelings as the fundamental task, and is committed to building a foreign language with special features. High-end compound talent training system. After years of school-running practice, a school-running feature of "combining learning with use and focusing on practice" has been formed. Foreign language majors emphasize "skills leadership, focus on practical training", and pay close attention to the basic skills training of "listening, speaking, reading, writing, and translation"; non-foreign language majors rely on superior foreign language teaching resources and multicultural environment, and adhere to "application orientation, strengthening practice" , Take the road of integration of production, education and research. Students have a broad international vision, outstanding innovative spirit and practical ability, high overall quality, and strong employment competitiveness. Tens of thousands of graduates from the Second Foreign Affairs have spread across the country and around the world. State Councilor and Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi, former Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng, Deputy Minister of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Xu Luping, and Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Cheng Guoping and Yuan Liu Hongcai, Deputy Minister of the International Department of the Central Committee, Wu Sike, China's Special Envoy for the Middle East, Chang Zhenming, Chairman of CITIC Group, Liu Shijun, Secretary-General of the World Tourism Union, and Juan Juan, a new generation Chinese film director in the United States, are outstanding in political, diplomatic, business, cultural and educational circles. People.
The school insists on improving the scientific research and innovation platform, and the academic innovation ability and social service ability continue to increase. There are China's "One Belt and One Road" Strategic Research Institute, China Tourism Talent Development Research Institute, National Cultural Development International Strategy Research Institute, China Foreign Cultural Communication Research Institute, Intercultural Research Institute, and Beijing-level key laboratories for data analysis of "One Belt One Road" 6 scientific research institutions including the Decision Support Laboratory, 6 provincial and ministerial scientific research bases including the Beijing Tourism Development Research Base, the Arab Research Center, and the Beijing Foreign Cultural Communication Research Base, 7 Central and Eastern European Research Centers, and the UNESCO Research Center The National and Regional Record Research Center of the Ministry of Education, a capital foreign cultural trade and international exchange collaborative innovation center approved by Beijing, has formed a relatively complete philosophy and social science research base, a high-level regional and national research base, and a trinity foundation for think tanks. The pattern of scientific research platform. He has edited and published academic journals such as "Journal of Beijing International Studies University", "Travel Guide", "Cross-Cultural Studies" and Journal of Chinese Economics. In recent years, the school's scientific research funding has increased by more than 30% annually. The number of high-level scientific research projects has continuously made breakthroughs. High-level academic seminars have gradually become a brand, and high-quality scientific research results have continued to grow.
The school has a team of teachers with a reasonable structure of age, education, major and professional title. There are nearly a thousand faculty members, of which 47% are full-time faculty members with doctoral degrees, and nearly 60% are associate professors or above. The vast majority of faculty members have studied abroad or studied for degrees. The school also employs more than 120 part-time professors and has more than 60 foreign experts. The school has 2 national excellent teaching teams, 4 Beijing excellent teaching teams, and 8 Beijing academic innovation teams.
The school gives full play to its multilingual advantages and vigorously develops international exchanges and cooperation. The school has established all-round, multi-level, and substantive exchanges and cooperation with more than 160 universities and educational institutions in more than 30 countries and regions. Each year, a certain number of teachers are selected to go abroad for further studies, visits, cooperative research, and engage in teaching Chinese as a foreign language. There are more than 500 students studying abroad and more than 1,000 foreign students coming to our school each year. The school has established 6 Confucius Institutes in cooperation with the Autonomous University of Chihuahua in Mexico, the University of Central Lancashire in the United Kingdom, Mohammed V University in Morocco, Clermont-Ferrand, France, the University of Coimbra in Portugal, and the University of Panama. Currently, Confucius Institutes in countries along the "Belt and Road" such as the University of Warsaw in Poland are under preparation.