Beijing Language and Culture University

Beijing Language and Culture University is a higher education institution directly under the Ministry of Education of China. It was established in 1962 under the personal care of Premier Zhou Enlai. In June 1964, it was named Beijing Language Institute. In 1974, Chairman Mao Zedong wrote the name of the school. In June 1996, it was renamed Beijing Language and Culture University. In 2002, the name of the school was simplified to Beijing Language and Culture University.

Beijing Language and Culture University is the only international university in China whose main task is to provide Chinese language and Chinese culture education to international students in China. It is known as the "Little United Nations".

The school provides professional education for Chinese students in foreign languages, Chinese, information science, economics, art, psychology, education, linguistics, etc. At the same time, it undertakes the tasks of training Chinese teachers and foreign language training for students preparing to study abroad. After more than 50 years of development, BLCU has developed into a multidisciplinary international university with language and culture education and language and culture research as its characteristics and advantages. It is an academic center for Chinese and foreign language and culture research in my country and a cradle for cultivating outstanding talents in various fields. In 2019, the school clarified the goal of building a world-class language university with Chinese characteristics and the strategic deployment of the "three-step" in the new era.

Knowledge BLCU

Beijing Language and Culture University has the longest history, largest scale and strongest faculty in Chinese international education and Chinese culture education. So far, the school has trained nearly 220,000 foreign students who are proficient in Chinese and familiar with Chinese culture for 184 countries and regions in the world. Many of its alumni have become well-known figures in academia, politics and business. Current Kazakhstan President Kasem Tokayev, former Ethiopian President Mulatu Teshome Watu, Chairman of Kazakhstan's National Security Council Karim Massimov, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov, German sinologist Gu Bin, American physicist and Nobel Prize winner Eric Cornell and other well-known figures have studied at BLCU. In addition, BLCU has trained hundreds of thousands of outstanding talents for China, including a large number of government-sponsored overseas students who have received special foreign language training at the Overseas Students Training Department. Now most of them have become pillars of the country in various fields.

Since the 1990s, BLCU has maintained its characteristics and advantages in the field of Chinese international education, and actively developed related disciplines, covering nine categories including literature, economics, law, engineering, history, education, management, art and science. The school has a complete talent training system, with 2 postdoctoral mobile stations, 2 first-level doctoral degree programs, 11 first-level master's degree programs, and 9 master's professional degree authorization points. Among them, there is 1 national second-level key discipline, 1 Beijing first-level key discipline, 10 Beijing second-level key disciplines, and 2 Beijing high-tech disciplines. There are 39 undergraduate majors, including 10 national first-class undergraduate major construction sites, 4 Beijing first-class undergraduate major construction sites, 1 Beijing "key construction first-class major", 7 national characteristic majors and 4 Beijing characteristic majors, as well as 1 "National Huang Danian-style Teacher Team", 2 national excellent teaching teams and 4 municipal excellent teaching teams.

The university currently has the following teaching and research units: Department of Chinese International Education (including the School of Chinese Language, School of Continuing Chinese Language Training, School of Chinese Intensive Studies, School of Preparatory Education, School of Chinese Language and Literature, and Center for International Communication of Chinese Culture), Department of Foreign Languages ​​(including the School of English, School of Advanced Translation, School of Applied Foreign Languages, School of Oriental Languages ​​and Cultures, School of Western Languages ​​and Cultures, School of Middle East, and Institute of National and Regional Studies), Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (including the School of Chinese Language Education, School of Humanities, School of International Relations, School of Journalism and Communication, and Beijing Research Base for Language Literature and Cultural Heritage); School of Information Science (Institute of Language Intelligence), School of Business, School of Marxism, School of Arts, School of Speech Rehabilitation (Institute of Speech Pathology and Brain Science), Department of Linguistics, School of Psychology, School of Training, School of Online Education, and Physical Education. Department of Education and Teaching, International College; Institute of Chinese International Education (International Chinese Teaching Research Base), Academy of Linguistics, Institute of Chinese Culture (Mei Lanfang Art Inheritance and Communication Center), High-tech Innovation Center for Language Resources (Secretariat for the Preparation of the National Emergency Language Service Team), Institute of International Student Education Policy and Evaluation, Institute of Economics, Institute of International Communication of Chinese Calligraphy, Innovation and Talent Introduction Base for Language Cognitive Science Disciplines, International Exchange Center for Chinese Industrial Culture (co-located with the National and Regional Institutes), Belt and Road Institute, Secretariat of the Special Office of the Asian Classics Translation Program (affiliated with the Belt and Road Institute), Lu Xun and World Culture Institute (affiliated with the Belt and Road Institute), Chinese Education Institute (affiliated with the Chinese International Education Institute), and Textbook Institute.

The university currently has 14 research centers (or bases) at or above the provincial and ministerial levels. Among them, the Institute of Chinese International Education is one of the 100 key research bases of the Ministry of Education in humanities and social sciences. The Arab Research Center is a key cultivation base for country and regional research of the Ministry of Education. The Language Cognitive Science Discipline Innovation and Talent Introduction Base is a "111 Plan" talent introduction platform supported by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science and Technology with language cognitive science as the discipline innovation point. The National Language Resource Monitoring and Research Print Media Center is an important base for the National Language Commission to monitor language resources. The China Language and Character Standardization Research Center is the position of the National Language Commission to develop and revise language and character standards. The China Language Resource Protection Research Center is a professional institution of the National Language Commission to implement the national language resource protection project. The International Chinese Teaching Research Foundation It is one of the first ten research bases for the international promotion of Chinese established by Hanban. The Research Center for Translation and Communication of Chinese Culture is a platform for the mutual translation of Chinese and foreign cultures invested and built by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The Capital International Cultural Research Base and the Beijing Literature Language and Cultural Heritage Research Base are key research bases for philosophy and social sciences in Beijing. The Language Resource High-tech Innovation Center is the only language center in the "Beijing Higher Education High-tech Innovation Center" built by the Beijing Municipal Education Commission. The Chinese National Language Application Research Center is an ethnic language application research institution supported by the State Ethnic Affairs Commission. The International Education and Cultural Communication Base of Traditional Chinese Medicine is a special base established by the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The Guangming Literature Heritage Research Institute is a research institution jointly established with Guangming Daily. In addition to provincial and ministerial scientific research centers (or bases), our school also has 16 country and regional research registration centers of the Ministry of Education, such as the Latin American Research Center, 1 scientific research center established by the Beijing Municipal Language Commission (Beijing Language Rehabilitation Education Research Center), and more than 50 school-level research institutions.

International BLCU

With the continuous expansion of my country's foreign exchanges and cooperation, the school's connection with the world is becoming increasingly extensive and close. At present, it has established cooperative and exchange relations with 386 universities and educational institutions in 75 countries and regions in the world, forming an all-round, multi-field, in-depth and fruitful international education pattern. The school cooperated with Harvard University to establish Harvard Beijing Academy, established Bangkok College in Thailand, and established Tokyo Branch in Japan. The school has carried out more than 100 Sino-foreign joint education projects in various forms, such as the dual degree joint training program with the University of Manchester in the UK and Kansai University of Foreign Studies in Japan, the student exchange program with the University of Bonn in Germany and the University of Barcelona in Spain, and the short-term projects with Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Sydney in Australia. It has hosted 18 Confucius Institutes and 2 Confucius Classrooms and was rated as an "Advanced Chinese Cooperative Institution". In recent years, an average of about 100 teachers have taught overseas each year, more than 400 students have gone abroad for exchange and study, and more than 1,500 foreign guests have been received each year.

Academic BLCU

The school edits and publishes nearly 20 journals, including Journal of Chinese Linguistics, Language Teaching and Research, World Chinese Teaching, Chinese Cultural Studies, Sinology Studies, Documentary Linguistics, Country and Regional Studies, and International Chinese Teaching Research.

The various textbooks published by the school's press have a wide impact at home and abroad. Various colleges and training institutions in nearly 100 countries use Chinese teaching materials published by BLCU.