Shanghai International Studies University

Shanghai International Studies University (SISU), founded in December 1949, is the first higher foreign language institution established after the founding of the People 's republic of China and one of the birthplaces of foreign language education in new China. It is a key national university directly under the Ministry of Education, co-built with Shanghai Municipality, and included in the "211 Project" and the "Double First-Class" initiative.

The university adheres to the spirit of its motto "High and Ambitious, Chinese and Foreign Learning" and the educational philosophy of "Interpreting the World, Shaping the Future", with the mission of "serving national development, serving the all-round growth of people, serving social progress, and serving cultural Exchange between China and Foreign countries", and deeply promotes the "multilingual +" educational strategy and educational reform centered on "cross, Connect, integrate", To cultivate outstanding international talents who are proficient in languages, countries and fields, and to strive to become a world-class foreign language university with distinctive features in the field of global knowledge of countries and regions.

Historical Heritage

Shanghai International Studies University is of the same age as the People's Republic of China. Its predecessor was the Shanghai Russian School affiliated to the East China People's Revolutionary University, and its first president was Jiang Chunfang, a renowned Russian translator, publisher and founder of the Chinese encyclopedia. After going through the succession and transformation of the Foreign Language School Affiliated to East China People's Revolutionary University, the Shanghai Russian Language School, and the Shanghai International Studies Institute, it was listed as a key national university by the Ministry of Education in 1963. In 1985, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, the English name of the University was determined as "Shanghai International Studies University" (abbreviated as "SISU"), and it was officially renamed "Shanghai International Studies University" in 1994.

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Advantages of the school

Since its establishment, Shanghai International Studies University has consistently maintained leading disciplinary strengths and high teaching quality, ranking among the top in China in international indicators such as QS World University Rankings, and has been rated A+ (Foreign Languages and Literatures) in the Ministry of Education's discipline and major assessment, tied for first place in the country.

Shanghai International Studies University is committed to promoting the construction of "strategic languages" to provide the most urgently needed reserve of key talents for national and local development and for promoting exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations. The number of languages taught at the university has reached 54. Including Russian, English, French, German, Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Korean-Korean, Persian, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Swedish, Dutch, Hebrew, Ukrainian, Turkish, Hindi, Hungarian, Uzbek, Kazakh, Polish, Czech, Swahi 39 modern languages including Ri, Serbian, Romanian, Tajik, Belarusian, Urdu, Pashto, Malay, Javanese, Sunda, Khmer, Bengali, Chinese, etc In addition to Latin, Ancient Greek, Esperanto, Sanskrit, Old English, classical Syriac, Pahlavi, classical Nawati, Yucatan Mayan, Akkadian, Sumerian, classical Hebrew, Ottoman Turkish, Gandhara (佉 lu), sign language, 15 other rare and difficult language courses are offered.

At present, Shanghai International Studies University has fully formed a discipline pattern with a strong focus on language and literature, and coordinated development of six major disciplines including literature, education, economics, management, law and engineering, with diverse and distinctive features. The university has three national key disciplines (English Language and Literature, Russian Language and Literature, Arabic Language and Literature [cultivation]), one national non-English language undergraduate talent training base (Western European language group), ten national characteristic major construction points, 29 There are national first-class undergraduate programs and four Shanghai (provincial) first-class undergraduate programs. Foreign Languages and literatures are included in the list of national "Double First-Class" disciplines. Six disciplines, namely Foreign Languages and Literatures, Political science, applied Economics, Education, Journalism and communication, and Business Administration, are included in the list of first-class disciplines of Shanghai universities (among which Foreign Languages and literatures are Class A).

Shanghai International Studies University is a partner of the United Nations Memorandum of Understanding and the Directorgeneral for Interpretation of the European Commission. It is also a member of the International Association of Translators and Interpreters (CIUTI), has the leading advanced translation school in Asia, offers all six official language pairs of the United Nations, and has received the highest global rating from the International Association of Conference Interpreters (AIIC).

Talent development

Shanghai International Studies University actively serves the national Belt and Road Initiative and the major strategy of cultural "going global". It was the first to propose the "multilingual +" strategy for cultivating outstanding international talents, innovates the education model, enhances the educational level through internal construction, and strives to cultivate generalists who can participate in global affairs and specialists who are well-versed in countries, regions and fields. Promote the cultivation of outstanding foreign language talents, multilingual high-end translation talents, multilingual international journalism and communication talents, borderless business management innovation talents, international innovation talents in applied economics, foreign-related legal talents, and international organization talents.

Shanghai International Studies University has successively established joint education systems with Xinhua News Agency, China Daily, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), CBN, Shanghai Foreign Language Channel (ICS), and implemented the credit recognition program among universities in the Yangtze River Delta. The university has collaborated with the UK's FutureLearn platform to explore and practice MOOCs, promoting the deep integration of information technology and teaching practice, and driving the innovation of educational concepts.

Excellence in Research

Based on its multilingual, interdisciplinary and cross-cultural integrated strengths, Shanghai International Studies University actively serves national strategic development and strategic communication, constantly inherits and highlights the traditional characteristics of foreign languages and literatures, relies on academic growth points such as political science, business administration and journalism and communication, gathers high-end research teams from China and abroad, actively explores the construction of "new liberal arts", collaboratively innovates to build a group of academic think tanks in universities, It enjoys a high academic status in the fields of language and literature, international relations, international communication and regional and country studies.

The university has one research platform jointly built by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Education and the Shanghai Municipal Government (China-Arab States Research Center for Reform and Development), one key research institute of humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education/Shanghai University Think Tank (Institute of Middle East Studies), and one research base of the National Language Commission / National Language Think Tank (China Foreign Language Strategy Research Center), one Shanghai Municipal Key Research Base (Institute of Global Governance and Regional and Country Studies), one Ministry of Foreign Affairs co-construction Research Base (China-Japan-South Korea Cooperation Research Center), three Ministry of Education Regional and Country Research Bases (EU Research Center, Russian Research Center, UK Research Center), and 20 Ministry of Education Country and Region Research Bases Research centers (registered), 2 research bases for people-to-people exchange between China and Foreign countries (Research Base for People-to-people Exchange between China and the UK, Research Base for people-to-people Exchange between China and Germany) of the International Department of the Ministry of Education, 1 co-construction base of the Education Management Information Center of the Ministry of Education (International Comparative Research Center for Educational Informatization), 1 key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education (Laboratory of Brain-Computer Collaborative Information Behavior), 2 Shanghai University Humanities and Social Sciences Key research Base (G20 Research Center, Shanghai English Education and Teaching Research Base), two Shanghai Social Science Innovation Research Bases (Comparative Research Base of Cultural Soft Power between China and Foreign Countries, Regional and Country Research Base from the Perspective of Language and Culture Circles), and Foreign Cultural Policy Research base co-built with Shanghai Municipal Government Development Research Center It is a sub-center unit of the Shanghai Social Survey Research Center.

More than 100 research institutions and academic groups of Shanghai International Studies University, with a focus on global governance and regional and country studies, have built a close integration of government, industry, academia, research and application channels for the application of research results, providing intellectual support for the formulation and implementation of relevant policies by national ministries and local governments, and a number of landmark research achievements have emerged. Five institutions, namely the Middle East Institute of Shanghai International Studies University, the China International Public Opinion Research Center, the China Foreign Language Strategy Research Center, the UK Research Center and the Silk Road Strategy Research Institute, have been selected as CTTI Source think tanks.

The university has been deeply promoting interdisciplinary studies based on foreign language disciplines, including the Institute of Corpus Research, the Key Laboratory of Brain-Computer Collaborative Information Behavior, the Application Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Science, and the Interdisciplinary Joint Laboratory of Interpretation and Translation between Shanghai International Studies University and iFLYTEK, to facilitate interdisciplinary research in linguistics, management, computer science and cognitive neuroscience. Advance the frontier exploration of data-driven language intelligence research.

Shanghai International Studies University edits and publishes Foreign Languages (Journal of Shanghai International Studies University), Foreign Language World, Foreign Language Audio-Visual Teaching, Chinese Comparative Literature, International Watch, British and American Literature Studies, Arab World Studies, Asian, Middle East and Islamic Studies (English), China International Review (English), Interpretation and Translation Studies (English), Foreign Language Testing and Teaching, Language Politics Policy and Language Education, Research on French Language Teaching in China, New Silk Road Journal, Frontiers of Corpus Research, English Education and Teaching Research, Youth Language Teaching (English), Network Media and Global Communication (English), Intercultural Communication and Communication Studies (English), Corpus and Humanities Studies (English) Journal of the International Society for the History of Art (English) Among the 21 academic journals, 7 are included in the Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index (CSSCI) source journals and collection journals, and 8 are in English and are published overseas, enjoying a high reputation in the academic circle. Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) is constantly promoting the overseas publication of Chinese academic journals and the translation and dissemination of Chinese academic masterpieces abroad, striving to enhance academic influence and international discourse power, and promoting the flourishing of Chinese philosophy and social sciences.

An international perspective

Shanghai International Studies University was one of the first universities in the People's Republic of China to engage in international exchanges, with foreign experts working on campus since its establishment. Shanghai International Studies University regards internationalization as its core development strategy. It has established partnerships with more than 440 universities, cultural, educational, research institutions and international organizations in 62 countries and regions. It was among the first universities in the world to sign cooperation framework agreements with the United Nations headquarters and its branches, the European Commission and the European Parliament. It has joined international academic alliances such as the International Alliance for Asian-African Studies, the China-UK Higher Education Humanities Alliance, the China-Russia Comprehensive University Alliance, and the China-Japan Humanities Exchange University Alliance.

Shanghai International Studies University encourages its young students to look to the world and grow in a multicultural environment, absorbing the best achievements and advanced experiences of higher education from around the world. The proportion of undergraduate students studying abroad is as high as 50%. Every year, more than a thousand undergraduate and graduate students are funded by the China Scholarship Council to go abroad for academic exchanges or to pursue cooperative degrees. Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) implements the "Foreign Experts Program" to actively build an international faculty and promote international research cooperation. More than 90 percent of its faculty have overseas study experience, and there are more than 230 foreign experts on campus.

Campus facilities

Shanghai International Studies University has two campuses covering an area of 74.7 hectares. The Hongkou campus, located in the heart of Shanghai, is adjacent to Lu Xun Park and the modern Shanghai cultural circle of Duolun Road; Songjiang Campus is located at the foot of Sheshan, the "top of Shanghai" in the suburbs of Shanghai, adjacent to the site of Guangfulin, the "root of Shanghai". The two have the same cultural heritage and each has its own characteristics.

The library of Shanghai International Studies University is one of the central libraries of the National Library Alliance of Foreign Language Colleges and Universities. It has two buildings and more than ten characteristic document rooms such as the Faisal Library. The library has a collection of over 1.3 million volumes of paper books (covering 65 languages), 1.74 million e-books, 1,385 kinds of Chinese and foreign paper periodicals, 1.22 million electronic periodicals, 2.72 million electronic dissertations, and 85 electronic resource databases. The library's digital academic service platform preserves and shares academic achievements such as papers and books published by SISU scholars over the long term, and provides a series of services including data archiving, management, release, retrieval, sharing, citation and statistical analysis for research processes and academic exchanges.

The World Language Museum of Shanghai International Studies University, with the theme of "Diversity of World Languages", is the first world language museum in China. It adheres to the founding concept of "Words Worlds" and conducts public science popularization education based on linguistics and its interdisciplinary academic theories, and is committed to the inheritance and protection of intangible cultural heritage. To build a global language knowledge system and promote dialogue and people-to-people exchange between Chinese and foreign civilizations, it is a member of the China Museums Association and the National University Museum Education Alliance. Shanghai International Studies University has advanced educational facilities, including a world-class simultaneous interpretation systemIt has also built language experimental equipment and other facilities, and established a foreign language multimedia educational resource library of considerable scale.

Social services

For a long time, Shanghai International Studies University has been committed to leading and promoting the reform and development of foreign language education in China, always focusing on academic popularization and knowledge dissemination. Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, one of the largest and most authoritative foreign language publishing bases in China, is a national first-class publishing house. It has published over 10,000 books, textbooks and electronic publications in more than 40 languages, with a total print run of over 1 billion copies and a reprint rate of over 70%. In the National Chinese Academic Book Citation Index (CBKCI), Foreign Language Teaching Press has repeatedly ranked first in the category of foreign languages and literatures in terms of the number of included books, and has a wide social influence. Shanghai Foreign Language Audio-Visual Publishing House/Shanghai Foreign Language Electronic Publishing House is the first professional foreign language audio-visual electronic publishing unit in China, and its "Love Future" brand is well-known at home and abroad and is deeply loved by foreign language learners. The Shanghai Foreign Language Interpretation Certificate Examination (SIA) organized and implemented by the school has test centers in 32 cities across the country, cultivating and selecting a large number of interpreters for society.

Shanghai International Studies University is a special project of the Ministry of Education for the construction of network culture in colleges and universities and one of the first pilot units of educational media convergence. It was the first among all colleges and universities in China to open a group of multilingual foreign language portal websites and build a media convergence center, telling Chinese stories in multiple languages, spreading Chinese voices through the Internet, innovatively building online education platforms, promoting the "going global" of Chinese higher education, and contributing to the improvement of international communication capabilities It has received special instructions from a national leader. In addition, students and teachers of the university are often seen at major international events such as high-end international conferences, sports events and art performances, promoting volunteerism, giving full play to their academic strengths and providing professional multilingual services.

For more than 70 years since its establishment, the faculty and students of Shanghai International Studies University have always been at the forefront of China's opening up to the outside world, with footprints all over the world, making contributions to China's diplomatic cause, economic construction, cultural prosperity and social development, as well as to enhancing friendship between the people of China and the rest of the world.

In the new era, with the "greater good of the country" in mind, Shanghai International Studies University has defined "five coordinates" on the new journey of building a world-class foreign language university. To become a hub for nurturing outstanding talents in "multilingual plus", an innovation source for foreign languages and literatures, a key supply base for global knowledge of country and region, a strategic support base for building global discourse capacity, and a demonstration and leading base for the reform and development of foreign language education.