Jilin University of Foreign Languages

Jilin Foreign Languages University is a key university in Jilin Province. The university was founded in 1995; It was approved by the Ministry of Education as a private regular undergraduate institution in 2003; In 2005, it was granted the right to confer bachelor's degrees and began to jointly recruit master's degree students; In 2006, through judicial notarization, all of the school's assets were donated to society; In 2007, it became the first and currently the only "provincial key university" among all private colleges and universities in the country; In 2010, with the approval of The State Council, it became the only pilot unit of the national education system reform - "Exploring the Model of running non-profit private colleges and universities". In 2011, approved by the Academic Degrees Committee of The State Council, it became one of the first private colleges to pilot the training of professional degree postgraduates (Master of Translation and Interpreting). In 2015, it became the first private university in the country to open a Confucius Institute in the United States; In 2016, it became the only private university in the country to be included in the National Project for Basic Capacity Building of Higher Education Institutions in Central and Western China; In 2017, it became the only private university in the country to be granted the qualification to recruit international students on Chinese government scholarships. It passed the review and assessment of the Ministry of Education and was approved by the Academic Degrees Committee of Jilin Province as a doctoral degree-granting institution for project construction. In 2018, it was approved by the Academic Degrees Committee of The State Council as a master's degree awarding institution and was renamed Jilin Foreign Languages University with the approval of the Ministry of Education. In 2020, it was included in the Jilin Province Characteristic High-level Applied University Construction Project (Class A); Selected as A doctoral degree granting institution in Jilin Province (Class A) in 2022; In 2024, the Degree Committee of Jilin Province will determine the school as A doctoral degree "A+" program cultivation unit (2024-2026); In 2025, it was awarded the title of National Civilized Campus by the Central Civilization Committee.

The school has now become an important base for cultivating high-quality applied foreign language and foreign affairs talents in Jilin Province and Northeast China, a cradle for cultivating "multilingual translation +" talents in Jilin Province, a national demonstration base for the reform of private higher education system, and a world center for multicultural integration education.

The school is located in the scenic Jingyuetan Tourist Area of Changchun City, covering an area of 703,000 square meters and having a building area of 346,800 square meters. The campus, surrounded by mountains and water, blends with the architectural style that combines Chinese and Western elements, highlighting the unity of environment and humanity, making it a modern "garden-like" school.

The school has 13,302 students, including 11,789 undergraduates, 1,482 postgraduates, more than 300 international students, and over 1,000 staff members, including 65 foreign teachers. The students come from the United States, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Brazil, Japan, South Korea, Egypt, Iran, Indonesia, Thailand, Mongolia, Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine and other countries.

The school has 1 national characteristic major, 1 national comprehensive reform pilot major, 6 national first-class undergraduate major construction points, 1 national experimental teaching demonstration center (Global Village), 1 national college students' off-campus practical education base, 1 China Scholarship Council "Perceive China" practice base, 1 national teaching achievement award, 8 national first-class courses, 1 There are 13 provincial first-class undergraduate programs, 3 Jilin Province Transformation and Development Demonstration program clusters, and 6 Jilin Province brand programs, with two national excellent courses, two China Scholarship Council "Perceive China" micro-courses, one Ministry of Education Regional Research center, Eight "12th Five-Year Plan" provincial characteristic majors, five "13th Five-Year Plan" provincial characteristic high-level majors, five Jilin Province characteristic high-level major group construction projects, and the number of provincial and above characteristic majors accounts for one-third of the total number of majors in the school; 24 provincial first-class courses, 19 provincial excellent courses, 31 provincial outstanding courses, 1 provincial model course for discipline education, 15 provincial model courses for ideological and political education in courses, and 17 provincial model/excellent cases of ideological and political education in courses.

The school has 2 provincial high-level advantageous and characteristic disciplines, 17 provincial research platforms such as provincial collaborative innovation center for Major Demands, provincial characteristic New University think tank, provincial key Research Base of humanities and social sciences, provincial research Base of Higher Education, provincial Laboratory of Philosophy and Social sciences in universities, 4 provincial model characteristic colleges, and 1 provincial innovation and entrepreneurship demonstration base. Four provincial-level experimental zones for innovative talent cultivation models, two provincial-level customized class cultivation projects for urgently needed talents, one provincial-level professional construction project under the education and training Program for outstanding Engineers 2.0, five provincial-level experimental teaching demonstration centers, and six provincial-level off-campus practice bases.

The school has four recipients of The State Council Special Allowance, one national inspector, one member of the National Committee for the Evaluation of the Establishment of Higher Education Institutions, two members of the Expert Committee for the Evaluation of Undergraduate Education and Teaching in Regular Institutions of Higher Learning of the Ministry of Education, and twelve members of the Foreign Language Teaching Steering Committee of Higher Education Institutions of the Ministry of Education. Members of the Teaching Steering Committee of all Specialties in regular undergraduate colleges and universities of Jilin Province (2021-2025), members of the expert working Group for the construction of "New liberal Arts" in regular undergraduate colleges and universities of Jilin Province (2021-2025), 2 provincial senior experts, 11 provincial outstanding middle-aged and young professional and technical talents, and 15 candidates of the Provincial top-notch innovative talent project 43 doctoral supervisors, 1 National Excellent Teacher, 4 provincial and ministerial excellent teachers, 7 provincial teaching masters, 10 provincial excellent teaching teams, and 3 provincial Huang Danyan-style teacher teams in colleges and universities.

The school is well-equipped with advanced teaching facilities and has a large-scale comprehensive language and cultural practice teaching base - the Global Village, which was designated as a national experimental teaching demonstration center by the Ministry of Education in 2013 and named as a "World Multicultural Education Center" by UNESCO. It has an experimental and training center for non-foreign language majors, with a building area of 14,200 square meters and 1,950 experimental stations, covering provincial-level experimental teaching demonstration centers for economics, business administration, computer and office automation, mental health, etc. The center serves teachers and students of all majors in the school. Currently, there are 245 non-foreign language experimental and training courses, supporting the teaching of 49 majors. An average of 20,192 students are trained each year. It has an international innovation and entrepreneurship education base - Shiqiao Building, which provides students with a "multi-matrix integrated" multi-development space for innovation and entrepreneurship.

The school has simultaneous interpretation laboratories, computer-assisted translation laboratories, digital voice rooms, digital recording studios, smart classrooms, professional simulation laboratories, smart office laboratories, artificial intelligence application foundation laboratories, digital and intelligent finance and taxation collaborative education laboratories, integrated publishing laboratories, digital art creation laboratories, tea art and wine comprehensive training rooms, mock court training rooms, multimedia classrooms, etc Functional lecture halls and various educational, teaching and cultural facilities such as plastic sports fields, gymnasiums and indoor swimming pools.

The school library, covering an area of 20,000 square meters, has more than 3,000 reading seats and is open 355 days a year. It is an open library that integrates literature collection, learning and reading, exchange and discussion, scientific research, cultural leisure, and incorporates modern, information, ecological and international elements. It has first-class service facilities and a network environment covered by WIFI. The library houses 1.23 million volumes of Chinese and foreign paper books, 2.4 million kinds of electronic books, 772,000 volumes of electronic periodicals, and 46 Chinese and foreign databases. The rich literature resources provide a strong literature information guarantee for the school's teaching and research, discipline construction and talent cultivation.

Since its establishment, the school has always adhered to the educational philosophy of putting social benefits first and taking the path of public welfare education. The school was the first among all private colleges and universities in the country to firmly advocate public welfare and no personal rewards, and it is also the first and currently the only private college and university to conduct property notarization.

The school has always adhered to the educational philosophy of "Everything for students to grow up, become talented and succeed, making Jiwai a bridge for Chinese people to become talented and go to the world, a bridge for the integration of Chinese and foreign cultures" and the educational philosophy of "student-centered, most responsible education", striving to provide students with the most serious, most responsible and best education. The school aims to live up to "the trust of parents, the time of students, the attention of society and the conscience of educators", and insists on facing the market, highlighting characteristics, improving internal capabilities, strengthening management, quality education and brand building. Practice the "knowledge, ability, personality" trinity view of talent development, adhere to moral education as the foundation, intellectual education as the foundation, physical education as the body, aesthetic education as the immersion, and labor education as the refinement, and form an education system that promotes the five aspects of moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor education.

The school has always attached great importance to Party building and ideological and political work. Standing at the strategic height of cultivating talents for the Party and the country, we have placed moral education at the center, as the fundamental task, and integrated it into all aspects of the development of the cause and the entire process of talent cultivation. Adhering to the educational philosophy of "learning foreign languages well, being a good Chinese, and telling Chinese stories well", we will build an ideological and political work system of "one core, two wings, six dimensions, and six integrations". The spirit of public welfare education was deeply integrated into the entire process of practical education. It was the first in the country to establish a college of volunteer service management, jointly built a training base with the China Volunteer Federation, and set up a Jilin incubation base for China Volunteer Service projects with the Volunteer Service Promotion Center of the Central Social Work Department. Student volunteers have become a well-known educational brand. One project of ideological and political work in colleges and universities was approved by the Ministry of Education, and the typical experience of ideological and political work in colleges and universities was reported four times on the Ministry of Education's Ideological and Political Work network. Approved as a model university for Party building work in the province and a demonstration base for Party building innovation in social organizations in Jilin Province. It has produced a large number of outstanding students such as "Top Ten Farmers of the Country" and "Good Youth of the Country".

So far, more than 40,000 students have graduated from the school. Graduates are widely welcomed by employers for their good moral character, excellent professional skills, strong dedication and high overall quality. In recent years, the employment rate of graduates has consistently ranked among the top in the province, and the quality of employment has continuously improved. It has been commended by the provincial education department for four consecutive years and has been honored with the title of "Top 50 Universities with Typical Experience in Graduate Employment Nationwide".

In recent years, the school has received kind concern and high praise from leaders at the national and provincial levels. Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and Chairman of the Central Committee of the China Democratic Promotion Association CAI Dafeng, former Vice chairmen Peng Peiyun, Gu Xiulian and Chen Zhili, former Chairperson of the Central Committee of the China Democratic Promotion Association Yan Junqi and former Vice Chairperson Zhu Yongxin, Secretary of the Party Group and Minister of the Ministry of Education Huai Jinpeng, former ministers of the Ministry of Education Zhou Ji, Yuan Guiren and Chen Baosheng, Secretary of the Jilin Provincial Committee Huang Qiang and former Secretary Ba Yinchaolu, former Governor of Jilin Province Han Jun and other leaders, They visited the school to inspect and guide the work one after another. The evaluation opinion of the expert group of the Ministry of Education 's undergraduate teaching qualification assessment on the school is: "This is a private university with high moral standards, good taste, good pursuit, good cultivation, very sunny and very determined. It is the banner of private universities across the country." The evaluation opinion of the Ministry of Education's undergraduate teaching review and evaluation expert group on the school is: "With passion, responsibility, contribution, level, characteristics, soul and hope, it is truly a banner of China's private colleges and universities." In the 2020-2025 ranking of private universities in China by Shanghairanking Consultancy, the school ranked first each time, achieving a "six-year consecutive championship".

The school adheres to its political attributes, always upholds the principle of fostering virtue and nurturing talent, and is committed to building a socialist university; We are committed to building a century-old prestigious university with a people-oriented nature and a commitment to non-profit operation. Emphasize strategic attributes and always adhere to applicationWith a clear positioning, we are committed to establishing a distinctive foreign language university. Adhere to quality education and strive to build a high-level university; We will always be committed to open education and strive to build an international university. At present, the university is focusing on its second entrepreneurship, building six highlands, and striving towards the goal of becoming a high-quality, non-profit, applied, international, distinctive and high-level foreign language university. In the future, the school will gradually realize the democratization, legalization and internationalization of its operation, and eventually become a century-old prestigious school.