Tianjin Foreign Studies University

Tianjin Foreign Studies University (abbreviated as "Tianjin Foreign Studies University" or "Tianwai") is a university with a complete range of major foreign languages, literature, economics, management, law, education, art, engineering and other disciplines coordinated and distinctive. The school fully implements the party's education policy, adheres to the fundamental task of cultivating morality and educating people, and upholds the school motto of "seeking knowledge at home and abroad, competing in morality and career", educating people for the party and the country, and focusing on cultivating high-quality, compound international talents.

Historical evolution

In 1964, under the care of Premier Zhou Enlai, Tianjin Foreign Studies University was born in response to the needs of the new China's diplomatic cause. The main predecessor was Qinhuangdao Foreign Language College established in 1964, and later renamed Hebei Foreign Language College and Tianjin Foreign Language College. In 1974, the school was restored and renamed Tianjin Foreign Studies University. In the same year, students were enrolled in English, Japanese, French, Russian, Spanish and other languages. After the college entrance examination was resumed in 1977, full-time undergraduate students were enrolled. In 1979, the school began to enroll master's students in English and Japanese. In 1981, it was approved by the State Council as the first batch of master's degree awarding institutions. In 2010, it was renamed Tianjin Foreign Studies University with the approval of the Ministry of Education.

Campus situation

The school currently has two campuses, Wudaodao and Binhai, with a total area of ​​464,218.7 square meters. The three courtyards of the Wudaodao campus are distributed in the historical architectural cultural tourism area of ​​Tianjin (Machang Road, Munan Road, Zhengzhou Road). The Binhai campus is located in the Dagang Higher Education Ecological Park of Binhai New Area, with beautiful scenery and lake reflections.

Disciplines and majors

The school currently has 61 undergraduate majors. Among them, there are 35 majors in foreign languages ​​and literature (33 foreign languages), other majors in literature such as Chinese and journalism, and 26 majors in economics, management, law, education, art, and engineering. There are 5 national characteristic majors, 5 national undergraduate major comprehensive reform pilot projects, 12 national first-class undergraduate major construction sites, and 10 Tianjin first-class undergraduate major construction sites. The first batch of national and Tianjin online, offline, online and offline hybrid first-class undergraduate courses and social practice first-class undergraduate construction courses were approved for 15 courses; 10 demonstration courses of ideological and political courses in Tianjin universities were approved, and 4 excellent textbooks of ideological and political courses in Tianjin universities were approved.

The school has the only national special needs doctoral talent training project in the country for "Research on the Translation of Important Documents of the Party and the State", 7 first-level disciplines authorized by master's degrees (covering 29 master's degree training directions), and 6 master's professional degree authorization categories (covering 20 training directions). It has 5 Tianjin key disciplines and 4 Tianjin characteristic disciplines. Among them, the discipline of foreign languages ​​and literature is a first-class construction discipline in Tianjin, and the discipline of Chinese languages ​​and literature is a first-class cultivation discipline in Tianjin. The discipline of foreign languages ​​and literature is qualified to accept young backbone visiting scholars and general visiting scholars from domestic universities.

Talent training

The school currently has more than 10,000 full-time undergraduate and graduate students, and the source of students covers 31 provinces, municipalities, autonomous regions and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. The school insists on improving the quality of talent training as the core, comprehensively promoting the deep integration of professional teaching and foreign language teaching, vigorously promoting various forms of compound talent training models such as minor, double degree, project class, "foreign language +" and "major +", actively organizing students to participate in translation and foreign affairs reception services for various large-scale international conferences, selecting outstanding students to study abroad, and constantly broadening students' channels to accept multiculturalism, highlighting language training and compound professional education with Tianwai characteristics.

The school was approved for two Tianjin education system reform projects for cultivating compound talents, among which Qiusuo Honors College was rated as a demonstration project for Tianjin education system reform; and jointly built a journalism school with the Propaganda Department of Tianjin Municipal Party Committee to jointly cultivate international journalism talents.

The graduation destination implementation rate has remained at a high level for many years. Nearly 50,000 outstanding alumni are active in diplomacy, foreign trade, news, finance, legal affairs, education and other fronts, and are well received and welcomed by employers. The school has established overseas innovation and entrepreneurship internship bases with Shuntianxiang University and Phoenix Satellite TV America. Students have repeatedly won good results in various professional competitions across the country.

Faculty

Over half a century of school-running history, the school has produced a group of linguistic masters and translators who enjoy a high reputation in my country's foreign language community, such as Zhong Zuoyou, Jin Yu, Zhu Wanqing, Xiu Gang, Wang Mingyu, Lin Kenan, etc., and the academic torch has been passed down and the accumulation is profound. The school currently has more than 1,000 faculty members, including more than 700 full-time teachers (including foreign teachers). More than 60% of the full-time teachers have overseas study or work experience, and some majors reach 100%. Among the teaching staff, there is 1 national teaching team, 12 Tianjin teaching teams, Tianjin teaching innovation teams, and 1 Tianjin model worker innovation studio. 8 teachers serve as members of the Ministry of Education's Higher Education Professional Teaching Guidance Committee (including deputy directors and chairmen of subcommittees). More than 70 people have won various honors or titles at the provincial and ministerial levels and above, such as experts with special allowances from the State Council, national outstanding teachers, "New Century Excellent Talents" from the Ministry of Education, candidates for Tianjin's Distinguished Professor System, and Tianjin's "131" innovative talents at the first level. Five innovation teams of the school were selected into the Tianjin Higher Education Innovation Team Training Program, and a Tianjin Foreign Affairs Translation Talent Reserve Base has been established.

Scientific Research

The university has established the Institute of Translation and Intercultural Communication (including the Central Document Translation and Communication Collaborative Innovation Center, the Central Document Translation Research Base of the Central Compilation and Translation Bureau, the Foreign Languages, Literature and Culture Research Center, the Language Symbol Application Communication Research Center, the Comparative Literature Research Institute, and the European and American Cultural Philosophy Research Institute), the National and Regional Research Institute [including the Korean Peninsula Research Center (Northeast Asia Research Center), the Latin American Research Center, the Russian Research Center, the Ukrainian Research Center, the Portuguese Research Center, and the French Research Center], the Tianjin Strategic Research Institute of the Belt and Road Initiative, and the Institute of Emergency Foreign Language Services. It has basically established an internationalized scientific research platform system that serves the development of the country, Tianjin, and the university.

The university focuses on scientific research innovation and think tank construction. It has the Ministry of Education’s National and Regional Research Center, the Central Compilation and Translation Bureau’s affiliated research base, Tianjin’s “2011 Collaborative Innovation Center”, Tianjin’s key research base for humanities and social sciences in colleges and universities, Tianjin’s general colleges and universities’ social science laboratory, Tianjin’s college innovation team, Tianjin’s college think tank, CTTI’s source think tank, and the “China Studies Research Center” overseas think tank, actively providing intellectual support for economic and social development and producing a series of landmark achievements. The school undertakes high-level scientific research projects, produces high-level papers, monographs and research reports, holds or hosts important international and domestic academic conferences every year, and has won many provincial and ministerial awards for outstanding social science achievements. It has gradually formed a scientific research feature led by four major research fields: translation and cross-cultural communication, country and regional research, "Belt and Road" Tianjin strategic development, and emergency language services. It hosts important academic journals such as "Journal of Tianjin Foreign Studies University" in foreign language and literature research, "World Culture" magazine, a comprehensive cultural journal, and academic journals such as "Chinese Translation Research" and "Language and Symbols".

International Cooperation

The school insists on the path of internationalization, actively serves the "Belt and Road" initiative, and has established friendly cooperative relations with more than 240 universities and educational institutions in more than 30 countries in the world. In 2019, the school was approved to cooperate with Bulgaria in undergraduate education projects. The school accepts foreign students with "Chinese Government Scholarship", "Confucius Institute Scholarship" and "Tianjin Municipal Government Scholarship", and has "Tianjin Foreign Studies University International Students Scholarship". Every year, it accepts more than 2,000 long-term and short-term international students from more than 60 countries around the world to study for undergraduate, master's, doctoral degrees or short-term training. Relying on the good cooperative relationship with foreign universities and cooperative education projects such as "2+2", "3+1", "4+1", as well as joint training of master's and doctoral programs, and the National Office for Chinese Language and Literature Student Chinese Teacher Volunteer Program, a large number of students are sent abroad for study and exchange every year. The school actively implements the strategy of Chinese culture going global, and has opened 9 Confucius Institutes in cooperation with universities in South Korea, Portugal, Russia and other countries. It has been awarded the honorary title of "Advanced Confucius Institute" by the National Office for Chinese Language and Literature for many times, and has been rated as the advanced Chinese cooperative school of Confucius Institutes in the world twice.

School conditions

The school currently has 9 Tianjin Experimental Teaching Demonstration Centers, Tianjin Virtual Simulation Experimental Teaching Center (construction project), 3 sets of international standard simultaneous interpretation lecture halls, 11 sets of international satellite TV receiving systems in 5 languages, and a campus computer network covering two campuses. The school has rich learning resources. The library building area of ​​the two campuses is more than 23,000 square meters, with a collection of 7.59 million books (including electronic books and paper books in multiple languages ​​and disciplines such as Chinese, English, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Thai, Burmese, etc.), more than 80,000 Chinese and foreign newspapers and magazines, and a relatively comprehensive Chinese and foreign database covering 73 document types, languages ​​and disciplines; the special collection includes nearly 20,000 Chinese and foreign documents published from the 17th century to the mid-20th century, among which ancient Chinese and foreign books, documents of the Republic of China, and Western Sinology documents have important historical and cultural value and academic research value. The school has complete sports facilities, including standard sports fields, football fields, tennis courts, basketball courts, volleyball courts and other sports facilities, a comprehensive gymnasium of more than 10,000 square meters, and modern sports venues such as swimming pools and fencing halls.

Social Service

Over the years, the school has continuously exerted its disciplinary and professional advantages and actively served the society. It has undertaken the tasks of consecutive interpretation and simultaneous interpretation for most high-end meetings and large international conferences in Tianjin. It has participated in and completed the translation of important central documents such as "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China", "Xi Jinping's Economic Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era", "Major Events of the People's Republic of China", "How the Communist Party of China Changed China" and the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. As a designated translation service unit for the 29th Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee, it completed the translation of important documents of the Beijing Olympic Games in multiple languages ​​and won the "Outstanding Contribution Award for China's Translation Industry". Student volunteers have excellently completed various types of volunteer services such as large-scale exhibitions and competitions, and won more than 40 honors such as China's 100 Outstanding Volunteer Service Groups, forming a unique "Tianwai" volunteer service system and an influential volunteer service brand.

Since the COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control in 2020, in accordance with the requirements of the municipal party committee and government, a volunteer translation commando team covering 6 languages ​​and more than 100 people has been quickly formed to go to airports, customs, border inspection, quarantine points and other anti-epidemic frontlines and foreign communities to assist in translation communication, emotional counseling and other work; completed more than 300,000 words of anti-epidemic translation tasks; recorded the epidemic prevention "Health Tips for Inbound Personnel" into 28 languages ​​for micro-videos to be played at Tianjin Port; compiled the anti-epidemic experience into "Thoughts and Practices on Emergency Foreign Language Services for Anti-epidemic", and contributed to the joint prevention and control of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, and to win the battle against epidemic prevention and control. The volunteer translation commando was commended by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and won the honorary title of Tianjin Model Collective in 2020.

The school actively implemented the instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping on improving the construction of major epidemic prevention and control systems. On the basis of many anti-epidemic practices, it further actively contributed wisdom. Ten foreign language professors jointly proposed the construction of emergency foreign language service talent training base, emergency foreign language service talent pool, emergency foreign language service research institute, and emergency foreign language service multilingual corpus laboratory, namely "one base and three libraries", which was affirmed by Vice Premier Sun Chunlan and the main leaders of the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government. On July 16, 2020, the "one base and three libraries" were officially unveiled, which marked that the construction of Tianjin's emergency foreign language service system has initially established an organizational structure and contributed to the country's improvement of major epidemic prevention and control systems. The main leaders of the Tianjin Municipal Party Committee praised Tianjin Foreign Studies University for its contributions to the city's epidemic prevention and control work.

Based on the new needs of basic education development in the new era, the school will give full play to its own and affiliated foreign language schools' advantages and influence in foreign language subject teaching and basic education, and carry out in-depth cooperation with education administrative departments, economic functional zones, and social enterprises at all levels of government to promote the balanced allocation and development of high-quality educational resources. At present, a "group of affiliated schools" has been formed, with Tianjin Foreign Studies University Affiliated Foreign Language School as the parent school, and Binhai Foreign Language School, Beichen Guanghua Foreign Language School, Jinghai Foreign Language School, Dongjiang Foreign Language School, High-tech Zone Foreign Language School, Jinnan Xingyao Primary School, Xiqing Jingwu Foreign Language School, and High-tech Zone Huayuan Foreign Language School as new schools. It has laid a good foundation for high-quality basic education with foreign languages ​​as its feature and all-round comprehensive development, and won wide praise. In January 2021, the school established Tianjin Foreign Studies University Education Group. The Education Group aims to "serve the country's education reform and innovation, share high-quality education resources", is guided by the country's major development strategy layout and market demand, and takes "integration of China and foreign countries to achieve the future" as its educational concept. It highlights the school-running characteristics of "foreign languages ​​as its feature, all-round and open education", and cultivates compound preparatory talents with patriotism, international vision, excellent foreign languages, and comprehensive development for the country.

Development Vision

Adhere to the new development concept, adhere to reform and innovation, promote the connotation development of the school, accelerate the construction of a distinctive high-level foreign language university, strive to provide education that satisfies the people, and cultivate high-quality, compound international talents with Chinese feelings, global vision, spirit of inquiry, and cross-cultural capabilities, in order to accelerate the realization of Tianjin's "one base and three districts" functional positioning, promote the "Tianjin City" and "Binhai City" dual-city development pattern, help Tianjin build a socialist modern international metropolis, and make new and greater contributions to the realization of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.