Sichuan International Studies University

Sichuan International Studies University, referred to as "Sichuan Foreign Languages ​​University", is located in Shapingba District, Chongqing. It is a full-time general college approved by the Ministry of Education and affiliated to the Chongqing Municipal People's Government. It is one of the four earliest foreign language colleges in the country.

The school adheres to the fine school spirit of "unity, diligence, rigor, and pragmatism", promotes the school motto of "embracing all rivers and learning from both China and foreign countries", and has formed the school-running characteristics of "international orientation, foreign language core, and diversified development", and has opened up a school-running path of "connotation development, quality first, Sino-foreign cooperation, and classified training".

The school has now developed into a multi-disciplinary foreign language university with foreign language and literature as the main subject, and coordinated development of Chinese language and literature, journalism and communication, education, economics, management, law and other disciplines. It has a complete education system with multiple forms and levels, including doctoral education, master's education, undergraduate education, education for international students, continuing education and intensive training. The school also has a postdoctoral research station for foreign languages ​​and literature, and has established academic journals such as "Foreign Languages" and "English Studies". The school has become an important base for the cultivation of foreign language and foreign-related talents in the southwest region, as well as the research of foreign languages ​​and culture, foreign economic and trade, and international issues.

Historical Evolution

Sichuan International Studies University (abbreviated as "Sichuan Foreign Language", in English, Sichuan International Studies University, abbreviated as SISU) was founded in 1950. It was established under the cordial care and guidance of the older generation of proletarian revolutionaries such as Deng Xiaoping, Liu Bocheng, and He Long. It has gone through five stages: the Russian Language Training Corps of the Southwest Military and Political University of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (1950), the Russian Language Battalion of the Second Advanced Infantry School of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (1951), the Russian Language Department of the Southwest People's Revolutionary University (1952), the Southwest Russian Language College (1953), and the Sichuan Foreign Studies University (1959). In 2013, it was renamed Sichuan International Studies University and was approved by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee as a doctoral degree-granting institution in the same year.

Campus Environment

The school is backed by Gele and faces Jialing. The campus extends to Gele Mountain in steps. It is shaded by green trees, with an elegant environment and beautiful scenery. It is a garden-style unit named by the Chongqing Municipal People's Government and a famous harmonious ecological campus in Chongqing. It is a mini mountain city in a large mountain city.

Disciplines and majors

The school has a multi-level education system including full-time undergraduate, master and doctoral graduate education, with 22 teaching units, 1 affiliated middle school and 1 affiliated primary school. The school offers 49 undergraduate majors, including 24 foreign language majors (22 foreign languages), and recruits undergraduate students from 29 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities across the country. There are more than 16,000 full-time students.

The school focuses on foreign languages ​​and literature, and has coordinated development of multiple disciplines such as literature, economics, management, law, education, philosophy, and art. The school has 1 first-level discipline authorized to confer doctoral degrees, including 13 second-level disciplines; 5 first-level disciplines authorized to confer master's degrees, including 49 second-level disciplines; 10 professional master's degree authorization points, covering 49 professional master's degree authorization fields; the first-level discipline of foreign languages ​​and literature has been approved as a postdoctoral research mobile station. The school currently has 4 national specialty construction sites, 8 provincial specialty construction sites, 11 national first-class specialty construction sites, 11 provincial first-class specialty construction sites, and 18 provincial first-class specialty project construction projects; there is 1 national comprehensive reform pilot specialty, 2 provincial comprehensive reform pilot specialty; there are 12 Chongqing "Three Special Action Plan" project specialty specialties, and 3 specialty disciplines.

Faculty

The school adheres to the "talent-strengthening school" strategy and fully implements the faculty construction project. There are 1,372 faculty members and 863 full-time teachers in the school, of which 50% are professors and associate professors, and 38% are doctors. The school currently has 6 national talents such as experts enjoying special allowances from the State Council, national outstanding educators, and national model teachers, 14 members of the Foreign Language Professional Guidance Committee of the Ministry of Education, 2 provincial and ministerial experts with outstanding contributions, 20 provincial academic and technical leaders and reserve candidates, 22 Chongqing Bayu Scholars and Talent Plan, 17 honorary titles such as "Famous Teacher", "Model of Teaching and Educating", "Top Ten Teachers", "Excellent Teacher", "Excellent Educator", and "Advanced Teacher Morality Individual", 4 second-batch "Five-Batch" talents of Chongqing Publicity and Culture, and second-level talents of "322 Key Talent Project", and 39 candidates for "Excellent Talent Support Program for Colleges and Universities", "Young and Middle-aged Key Teachers of Colleges and Universities" and "Young Key Teachers Support Program for Colleges and Universities". There are currently 8 presidents and vice presidents of national first-level and second-level societies.

Scientific Research

The school has built 3 provincial key research bases for humanities and social sciences, 3 national and regional research cultivation/registration bases of the Ministry of Education, and 2 Chongqing 2011 Collaborative Innovation Centers. The school journal Foreign Languages ​​is a national core journal of Chinese foreign languages, and English Studies is a CSSCI source journal. The school has established applied research platforms such as the Regional and Country Research Institute, Chongqing Contemporary China Research Institute, BRICS Research Institute, Chongqing International Strategic Research Institute, Contemporary International Discourse System Research Institute, Chongqing International Education Development Research Center, and Chongqing Education Law Research Center, and has produced a number of valuable and highly visible research results. The school is the president unit of the second-level associations organized by national associations such as the Chinese Foreign Language Interface Research Association, the Chinese Language Education Research Association, the Chinese and Western Language Philosophy Research Association, and the Chinese Cognitive Communication Association.

International Cooperation

The school has established inter-school cooperation and exchange relations with more than 100 universities and institutions in more than 30 countries or regions, and has established two Sino-foreign cooperative education projects approved by the Ministry of Education, such as Sino-Australian Business English and Sino-French Logistics Management. It has established three Confucius Institutes with the Nizhny Novgorod National Language University in Russia, the University of Lomé in Togo, and the Central Education Service Center of Eastern Ohio in the United States, and one Confucius Classroom with the Siyuan Chinese Language School in Ecuador. In recent years, the school has actively carried out various types of undergraduate, master and doctoral talent training, teacher training, scientific research cooperation, and overseas talent introduction. It receives more than 400 international students, more than 70 long-term and short-term foreign experts and teachers, more than 100 teachers and more than 600 students each year. The school is one of the universities of the Global Alliance of Foreign Language Universities (GAFSU) and a formal member of the Association of Universities of French Language Countries (AUF). It cooperates with foreign governments and educational institutions to establish foreign-related education and cultural exchange institutions such as the Goethe Language Center, Cervantes Language Center, Italian Center, Russian Center, and Belarus Center.

School conditions

The school covers an area of ​​71 hectares and has complete teaching facilities. It has the most complete foreign language teaching multimedia classrooms, voice laboratories, simultaneous interpretation laboratories, translation laboratories, business practice simulation laboratories, communication skills comprehensive laboratories, interlanguage corpus laboratories, and Chongqing Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs Experimental Center. The school library currently has a total of more than 3.64 million books, including 220,409 original foreign language books. There are more than 3,400 Chinese and foreign paper journals and 41,354 electronic journals. In recent years, our school has actively introduced 93 Chinese and foreign databases including the China Journal Master and Doctoral Dissertation Database (CNKI), Super Star Discovery System, GALE Reference Books, PQDT Dissertations, etc.; self-built German-specific databases and CD-ROM release system databases, and built a document resource guarantee system that combines paper documents with electronic documents, physical collections with virtual collections.

Social Service

The school uses its foreign language advantages and characteristics to serve the society, and provides intellectual support and talent support for improving the level of Chongqing's inland open highland construction, creating a better open economic environment, and promoting the internationalization and diversification of Chongqing's industries. The school is a member of the Chengdu-Chongqing Twin Cities Economic Circle University Alliance. The school volunteers provide reception, translation, liaison, coordination, etiquette, and guide services for many large-scale international events and Chongqing's foreign affairs activities, such as the Beijing Olympics, Shanghai World Expo, Guangzhou Asian Games, Chongqing Smart Expo, Dialogue between the Communist Party of China and the World, and the 2018 Russia World Cup, and have been unanimously praised by friends at home and abroad. In the 72 years since its establishment, Sichuan International Studies University students have traveled all over the world, making positive contributions to promoting national economic construction and social development, promoting Chongqing's foreign exchanges and cooperation, promoting my country's diplomatic cause and cultural communication, and enhancing my country's friendship with people from all over the world.

Development Vision

Based on the new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics, Sichuan International Studies University takes "moral education" as its fundamental task, takes "double first-class" construction as its guide, and takes improving the quality of talent training as its core. It will further optimize the discipline and professional structure, deepen education and teaching reforms, enhance scientific research strength, increase international exchanges, strengthen cultural inheritance and innovation, and improve social service levels, and move towards the goal of accelerating the construction of a distinctive and high-level applied research-oriented foreign language university!

(Data updated as of January 2022)