Beijing International Studies University ★

Beijing International Studies University, jointly built by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the people 's government of Beijing municipality, is a renowned university with foreign languages as its main body, tourism as its characteristic, and multiple disciplines developing in coordination. It is an important base for the cultivation and research of talents in foreign languages, translation, tourism, economics and trade in China.

Beijing International Studies University was established in October 1964 on the basis of the former Xinhua News Agency Foreign Language Cadre School, which was proposed by Premier Zhou Enlai himself. It was one of the first universities in the country to recruit undergraduate students. It was successively under the leadership of The State Council for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the People's Government of Beijing Municipality, the Ministry of Education and the State Tourism Administration. In February 2000, it was placed under the management of the Beijing Municipal Government. It was jointly built by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the People's Government of Beijing Municipality in March 2022.

Since its establishment, the school has adhered to the spirit of its motto, "Virtue, Diligence, Truth-Seeking, and Striving for Excellence", and has developed an academic style of "integrating Chinese and foreign knowledge and practice" and a teaching style of "Harmony in Thinking, Humanistic Transformation". Mr. Li Yueran, Mr. Su Qi, Mr. Zhou Xiqing, Mr. Dong Leshan, Mr. Guan Zhenhu, Mr. Li Chuansong, Mr. Wang Zhiyou, Mr. Wang Wenjiong, Mr. Shu Yu, and other senior translators of the early years of the People's Republic of China have all promoted literature and teaching at the school. The tens of thousands of graduates from the school have come from all over the country and around the world, including Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, director of the Office of the Central Commission for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Minister, Gao Hucheng, former minister of Commerce, Liu Hongcai and Xu Lvping, former vice ministers of the International Department of the Central Committee, Cheng Guoping, former vice minister of Foreign Affairs, Chen Jian, former vice minister of Commerce, and Wu Sike, former special envoy of the Chinese government for the Middle East. Chang Zhenming, former Party secretary and chairman of CITIC Group, Jiang Bo, former vice president of Tongji University, Liu Shijun, vice chairman and secretary-general of the World Tourism Alliance, and other outstanding figures from the political, diplomatic, business, cultural and educational circles.

The university is located in Chaoyang District, Beijing, with the Central Business District to the west and the Beijing sub-center to the east. It has 16 teaching units, including the School of English, the School of Japanese, the School of Asian Studies, the School of European Studies, the School of Chinese and Eastern Studies, the School of Advanced Translation, the School of Tourism Science, the School of Business, the School of Economics, the School of Regional and Country Studies, the School of Culture and Communication, the School of Artificial Intelligence and Language Science, the School of International Studies, the School of Marxism, the Department of Physical Education and the Department of Basic Sciences. There are nearly 10,000 students of all kinds, including more than 6,300 regular undergraduate students, more than 1,800 postgraduate students, more than 100 international students and more than 300 regular trainees. There are nearly a thousand staff members on the payroll. Among them, there are 2 National Excellent teaching teams, 1 National university Huang Danyan-style teacher team, 4 Beijing Excellent Teaching Teams, 3 National talent Programs, 2 Lifetime Cultural Achievement Awards for Translators, and more than 40 provincial and ministerial-level talents such as Ministry of Education New Century Excellent Talents, Ministry of Education Overseas Talent Attraction Special Project, Beijing Overseas High-level Talents, and Senior translators. The school has also hired more than 130 part-time professors and industry mentors, and has more than 50 foreign experts.

The university has always been committed to serving the national strategy and the development of the capital, building a research institution system covering multiple disciplines, and concentrating its advantages to create three university-level research platforms: the China-Arab Cultural and Tourism Cooperation Research Center, the Regional and Country Research Center, and the Civilizational Interpretation and International Communication Research center. It has the China Culture and Tourism Industry Research Institute, the China Tourism Talent Development Research Institute, the China Service Trade Research Institute (Capital International Exchange Center Research Institute, National Cultural Development International Strategy Research Institute), the Capital International Cultural Communication Research Institute, the China Comics and Cultural Creativity Research Institute, the Denmark Research Center, the UNESCO Research Center, the China-Japan-South Korea Cooperation Research Center, and the Peru Research There are 11 provincial and ministerial-level research bases and 1 provincial and ministerial-level collaborative innovation center among the research institutions such as the Center, the China Institute of Public Policy Translation, the Capital Institute of Culture and Tourism Development, the China Institute of Culture and Tourism Big Data, the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Language Cognition, and the Belt and Road Data Analysis and Decision Support Laboratory. One Ministry of Education training Base for country and regional Studies, four Ministry of Education registered Centers for country and regional Studies, host important academic organizations such as Beijing Translators Association, Beijing Comics Society, and Beijing Tourism Society The chief editor of academic periodicals such as Journal of Beijing International Studies University (Core of Peking University), Journal of Arabic Studies (CSSCI Source collection), Tourism Guide, Intercultural Studies, Beijing Translation, and Comic Studies.

The university has made full use of its multilingual advantages, vigorously carried out international exchanges and cooperation, and has a distinct international character. The school has established all-round and multi-level exchanges and cooperation with more than 210 universities and educational institutions in over 50 countries and regions around the world. Every year, a large number of teachers are sent abroad for further study, visiting studies, cooperative research, teaching Chinese as a foreign language, etc. On average, more than 100 foreign teachers or visiting scholars come to the school for teaching or exchange, and more than 500 students go abroad for study. The school receives more than 1,500 foreign students each year. The university has established six Confucius Institutes in collaboration with the Autonomous University of Chihuahua in Mexico, the University of Central Lancashire in the UK, Mohammed V University in Morocco, the city of Clermont-Francois in France, the University of Coimbra in Portugal, and the University of Panama. The university offers summer and master's programs on "Chinese-style modernization and Urban Development", expands the number of "Second foreign language students studying abroad", and conducts distinctive national conditions education.

Sixty years of passing on the torch and flourishing in vigor, new journey of shouldering the mission and writing a new chapter. Looking to the future, the school will always uphold the mission of "people-to-people exchange between China and the world", take serving the national strategy and the development of the capital as its responsibility, adhere to the educational philosophy of "integrating China and the world, combining knowledge and action", insist on internal development, strengthen cross-integration, and strive to cultivate compound talents who are "multilingual and multilingual, cross-disciplinary and compound", have a sense of patriotism and an international perspective, Strive to build a high-level foreign language university with a distinct feature of "people-to-people exchange between China and foreign countries in the new era".