Beijing Foreign Studies University

Beijing Foreign Studies University is located on the North West Third Ring Road in Haidian District, Beijing. It has two campuses, the East and the West, on both sides of the Third Ring Road. It is directly under the Ministry of Education, one of the first batch of "211 Project" universities, a "985" advantage discipline innovation platform university, and one of the first batch of "Double First-Class" universities.

BFSU is the first foreign language college founded by the Communist Party of China. Its predecessor was the Russian Language Brigade of the Third Branch of the Chinese Anti-Japanese Military and Political University established in Yan'an in 1941. It later developed into the Yan'an Foreign Language School and was under the leadership of the Party Central Committee since its establishment. After the founding of New China, the school was under the leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1954, it was renamed Beijing Foreign Studies University. In 1959, it merged with the Beijing Russian Language Institute to form the new Beijing Foreign Studies University. After 1980, it was directly under the leadership of the Ministry of Education and was officially renamed Beijing Foreign Studies University in 1994.

BFSU has been approved to offer 101 foreign languages. The European language group and the Asian and African language group are currently the largest non-universal language construction bases in my country and are the first batch of characteristic professional construction sites of the Ministry of Education. The school has formed a pattern of coordinated development of multiple disciplines such as literature, law, economics, and management with foreign languages ​​and literature as the main discipline. In chronological order, the languages ​​offered by the school include Russian, English, French, German, Spanish, Polish, Czech, Romanian, Japanese, Arabic, Cambodian, Lao, Sinhalese, Malay, Swedish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Albanian, Bulgarian, Swahili, Burmese, Indonesian, Italian, Croatian, Serbian, Hausa, Vietnamese, Thai, Turkish, Korean, Slovak, Finnish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Norwegian, Icelandic, Danish, Greek, Filipino, Hindi, Urdu, Hebrew, Persian, Slovenian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Irish, Maltese, Bengali, Kazakh, Ukrainian, Azbek, Latin, Zulu, Kyrgyz, Pashto, Sanskrit, Pali, Amharic, Nepali, Somali, Tamil, Turkmen, Catalan, Yoruba, Mongolian, Armenian, Malagasy, Georgian, Azerbaijani, Afrikaans, Macedonian, Tajik, Setswana, Ndebele, Comorian, Creole, Shona, Tigrinya, Belarusian, Maori, Tonga, Samoan, Kurdish, Bislama, Dari, Tetum, Dhivehi, Fijian, Cook Islands Maori, Lundi, Luxembourgish, Kinyarwanda, Niuean, Pidgin, Chewa, Setsutho, Sangho, Tamazigot, Javanese, and Punjabi. The school upholds the spirit of Yan'an and insists on serving the national strategy. At present, it has opened all the official terms of countries that have established diplomatic relations with China.

BFSU currently has 33 teaching and research units. In recent years, the school has cooperated with the University of Nottingham in the UK to establish an international graduate school, and has successively established many characteristic research institutions such as the Xu Guozhang Language Institute, the Wang Zuoliang Foreign Literature Institute, the Regional and Global Governance Institute, and the Comparative Civilization and Humanities Exchange Institute; vigorously promoted the reform of talent training models, and established the BFSU College, the International Organization College, and the International Education College. On the basis of the original Asian and African College, it was expanded to the Asian College and the African College. The school has a key research base for humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education: China Foreign Language and Education Research Center, and a scientific research center of the National Language Commission: National Language Ability Development Research Center. 4 regional and country research and cultivation bases of the Ministry of Education (Central and Eastern European Research Center, Japan Research Center, British Research Center, Canadian Research Center) and 37 country and regional research centers registered by the Ministry of Education. 3 humanities exchange research centers of the Ministry of Education: China-Indonesia Humanities Exchange Research Center, China-France Humanities Exchange Research Center, and China-Germany Humanities Exchange Research Center. The school edits and publishes four CSSCI source journals, "Foreign Language Teaching and Research", "Foreign Literature", "International Forum", and "International Sinology", and one CSSCI extended version source journal "Foreign Language Education Research Frontiers", and publishes "Russian Teaching in China", "Chinese Applied Linguistics (English)", "International Chinese Education", "English Learning", "Eurasian Humanities Research", "German Humanities Research", "French-speaking Countries and Regions Research", "Regional and Global Development", "Youth Legal Education" and other journals. The school has the largest publishing base for foreign language books, audio-visual and electronic products in the country: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.

BFSU offers 121 undergraduate majors, of which 44 majors are the only majors in the country. The school currently has 4 national key disciplines (including cultivation disciplines) and 7 Beijing key disciplines. It has 2 first-level doctoral programs (foreign languages ​​and literature, management science and engineering), 11 first-level academic master programs (law, political science, Marxist theory, applied economics, Chinese language and literature, foreign languages ​​and literature, journalism and communication, management science and engineering, business administration, education, world history), and 8 professional master programs (finance, international business, Chinese international education, translation, journalism and communication, law, accounting, and master of business administration), covering six major disciplines: literature, economics, management, law, education, and history. In the results of the fourth round of national discipline evaluation in 2017, the school's first-level discipline of foreign languages ​​and literature was rated A+, ranking first in the country. In the 2018 "QS World University Subject Rankings", the school's linguistics and modern languages ​​disciplines once again entered the top 100 in the world, ranking first among similar institutions in China. The school has 5,600 undergraduate students, 3,100 graduate students (masters and doctors), and 1,600 international students.

BFSU focuses on innovating talent management mechanisms and comprehensively improving the level of its teaching staff. It currently has more than 1,200 faculty members and nearly 200 foreign teachers from 60 countries and regions. The school has high-level teachers such as young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions at the national level, leading talents in philosophy and social sciences of the National "Ten Thousand Talents Plan", famous teachers of the National "Ten Thousand Talents Plan", national "Four Batches" talents, and young "Yangtze River Scholars". More than 90% of the teachers have overseas study experience. The teaching team of the China Foreign Language and Education Research Center was selected as the first batch of "Huang Danian-style teaching teams in national universities".

BFSU adheres to the internationalized school-running ideas of high-end leadership and overall promotion, and has carried out exchanges with 313 universities and academic institutions in 91 countries and regions in the world, and has established substantial cooperative relations with famous foreign universities such as the University of Nottingham, the School of Oriental and African Studies, the University of London, the National School of Oriental Languages ​​and Civilizations, the Moscow State Linguistic University, the University of Göttingen, the University of Rome, the University of Hungary, and the Jagiellonian University in Poland. The school has hosted 23 overseas Confucius Institutes in 18 countries in Asia, Europe and America, ranking first among domestic universities, including the Confucius Institute in Nuremberg-Erlangen, Germany, the Confucius Institute in Brussels, Belgium, the Confucius Institute at the University of Vienna, Austria, the Confucius Institute at the University of Rome, Italy, the Confucius Institute in Krakow, Poland, the Confucius Institute in Liege, Belgium, the Confucius Institute in Düsseldorf, Germany, the Confucius Institute at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary, the Confucius Institute in Sofia, Bulgaria, the Confucius Institute at Palacky University in the Czech Republic, the Confucius Institute in Munich, Germany, the Confucius Institute at the University of Malaya, Malaysia, the Confucius Institute at the University of Foreign Studies in Korea, the Confucius Institute in Barcelona, ​​Spain, the Confucius Institute at Moscow State Linguistic University, Russia, the Confucius Institute at Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates, the Confucius Institute in London, the Confucius Institute at the University of Tirana, Albania, the Academic Confucius Institute at the University of Göttingen, Germany, the Confucius Institute at Oxford Brookes University, the Confucius Institute at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, the Business Confucius Institute at ESCP Europe Business School in France, and the Confucius Classroom at Maryknoll School in Hawaii, USA.

The library of BFSU has a collection of nearly 1.45 million paper books in Chinese and foreign languages, more than 2.22 million electronic books in Chinese and foreign languages, 1,123 Chinese and foreign newspapers and periodicals, and 97 Chinese and foreign databases, forming a collection feature with language, literature, and culture as the main materials. In recent years, with the development of discipline construction, documents in politics, law, diplomacy, economy, news, and management have gradually formed a collection system. The school continues to strengthen information construction, forming an information architecture of "openness, interconnection, intelligence, innovation, and integration", and developing a number of landmark achievements represented by multilingual websites, digital BFSU, and data center software platforms. Among them, the multilingual website project was launched in 2015 and supports 50 foreign languages. In 2018, it was approved as a pilot university for the action of artificial intelligence to promote the construction of the teaching team by the Ministry of Education.

In the long history of running schools, Beijing Foreign Studies University has closely combined the needs of national strategic development, formed the school philosophy of "foreign, special, sophisticated, and comprehensive" and the school motto of "inclusive, erudite, and diligent", and has become an important base for cultivating high-quality foreign-related talents in diplomacy, translation, education, trade, journalism, law, finance, etc. Batches of graduates from BFSU are spread all over the world and all over the country, active in all walks of life, making outstanding achievements and becoming elites and pillars of society. According to incomplete statistics, among the alumni of Beijing Foreign Studies University, more than 400 have served as ambassadors abroad and more than 2,000 have served as counselors. Therefore, the school has won the reputation of "Cradle of Diplomats of the Republic".

At present, BFSU is fully implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and the spirit of the 19th CPC National Congress, upholding tradition, pursuing excellence, and striving for perfection to promote the steady and rapid development of the school. It is committed to cultivating compound, bilingual, high-level international talents who are urgently needed by the country, have a sense of social responsibility, innovative spirit and practical ability, and have Chinese sentiments, international vision, critical thinking and cross-cultural capabilities, so as to accelerate the pace of building a world-class foreign language university with Chinese characteristics.