Beijing International Studies University
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Introduction to Beijing International Studies University
Beijing International Studies University (北京第二外国语学院, website) is a well-known university with a multi-disciplinary development of literature, management, economics, and philosophy. base.
Beijing International Studies University was proposed by Premier Zhou Enlai personally and was established in October 1964 on the basis of the former Xinhua News Agency Foreign Language Cadre School. Under the leadership of the State Council for Foreign Cultural Liaison, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Beijing Municipal People’s Government, the Ministry of Education and the National Tourism Administration. In February 2000, it was placed under the management of the Beijing Municipal People’s Government.
Beijing International Studies University is located in Chaoyang District, Beijing, adjacent to the Central Business District (CBD) to the west and Beijing Sub-City (Tongzhou) to the east. At present, there are nearly 10,000 students of various types, including more than 6,200 undergraduates, more than 1,300 graduate students, more than 700 foreign students, and more than 1,000 Guan Peisheng students. There are currently Colleges of English, Japanese, Asian, European, Middle Eastern, Advanced Translation, College of Tourism Science, Business School, School of Economics, School of Political Science, School of Culture and Communication, School of Chinese Language, School of Marxism, Ministry of Sports, 17 teaching units of the Ministry of Basic Sciences, Guanpei College and Xiadou Lake College. The library currently has more than 1.17 million volumes of books, with about 200 original newspapers and periodicals in foreign languages (including Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan) and about 850 Chinese newspapers and periodicals; more than 1.08 million electronic books; 105 databases, including 42 Chinese databases and 61 foreign databases , Two self-built databases.
Beijing International Studies University has 44 undergraduate majors (including 26 language majors), 28 master’s degree second-level disciplines, 6 master’s degree masters, 5 master’s degree first-level disciplines, and joint doctoral programs 2 (cultivating a PhD in translation with Binghamton University in the United States, co-cultivating a PhD in tourism with the University of South Carolina in the United States), 2 postdoctoral research stations (co-established with the Social Science Literature Press and the Capital University of Economics and Trade) . There are 2 high-level disciplines in Beijing universities (tourism management, foreign language and literature), 4 key construction disciplines in Beijing (foreign language and literature, tourism management, business management, and international trade); 4 national specialty programs (Japanese , Arabic, English, tourism management), 1 pilot program for comprehensive reform of the Ministry of Education (Japanese), and 1 key first-class major in Beijing (translation major).
Beijing International Studies University insists on serving the national strategy and the needs of the capital as the fundamental task. The basic task is to cultivate “multilingual compound language, cross-professional compounding” with international feelings and national vision. After years of school-running practice, it has formed a school-running characteristic of “combining learning with use and focusing on practice”. Foreign language majors emphasize “skills leadership, focus on practical training”, and pay close attention to the basic skills training of “listening, speaking, reading, writing, and translation”; non-foreign language majors rely on superior foreign language teaching resources and multicultural environments, and adhere to “application orientation and strengthen practice” , Take the road of integration of production, learning and research. Students have a broad international vision, outstanding innovation spirit and practical ability, high comprehensive quality and strong employment competitiveness. Tens of thousands of graduates from the Second World University have spread across the whole country, including North and South, and around the world. State Councilor and Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi, former Minister of Commerce Gao Hucheng, former Deputy Ministers of the Central United Nations Liu Hongcai and Xu Luping, former Deputy Foreign Ministers Cheng Guoping, Former Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Commerce Chen Jian, Former Special Envoy of the Chinese Government for the Middle East Wu Sike, Chang Zhenming, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of CITIC Corporation, Changjiang Bo, Deputy School of Tongji University, and Liu Shijun, Secretary General of the World Tourism Union , Business, culture and education.
Beijing International Studies University insists on focusing on the major development strategies of serving the country and the capital, giving full play to the advantages of disciplines, strengthening cross-integration, and actively promoting innovation and characteristic research in the areas of service trade and cultural trade, the Belt and Road, public policy translation, regional and national culture Training of high-level cross-training talents, strengthening the construction of a new type of think tank matrix and the characteristics of consultation services. Currently has the China Culture and Tourism Industry Research Institute, China Tourism Talent Development Research Institute, China Culture and Tourism Big Data Research Institute, China ’s “Belt and Road” Strategic Research Institute, Capital Culture and Tourism Development Research Institute, and Capital Institute for Foreign Cultural Communication 15 research institutions including China-Arab Research and Development Institute, Capital International Exchange Center Research Institute, China Public Policy Translation Research Institute, China Service Trade Research Institute, Artificial Intelligence and Language Cognition Laboratory, Digital Resources and Knowledge Service Laboratory, etc. It has 6 provincial and ministerial-level scientific research bases, 1 provincial and ministerial-level collaborative innovation center, and 7 national and regional filing and research centers of the Ministry of Education. Edited and published “Journal of Beijing Second Foreign Studies University”, “Tourism Guide”, “Cultural Studies” and Journal of Chinese Economics and other academic journals.
Beijing International Studies University has a faculty with a reasonable structure of age, education, profession, and professional title. There are nearly one thousand working and editing staff, of which more than 50% are full-time teachers with doctorate degrees, and nearly 60% have titles of associate professors and above. Most teachers have experience of studying or working abroad. The school also employs more than 120 part-time professors and has more than 60 foreign experts. The school has 2 national outstanding teaching teams, 4 Beijing outstanding teaching teams, and 8 Beijing academic innovation teams.
Beijing International Studies University makes full use of its multilingual advantages, vigorously develops international exchanges and cooperation, and has distinctive international characteristics. The school has established comprehensive, multi-level, and substantial exchanges and cooperation with more than 170 universities and educational institutions in more than 40 countries and regions around the world. Each year, it sends a certain number of teachers to study abroad, study abroad, and cooperate in scientific research to engage in Chinese as a foreign language. Teaching, etc., the annual average of more than 600 students studying abroad, the average annual acceptance of more than 1,500 foreign students. The school has established 6 Confucius Institutes in cooperation with the Chihuahua Autonomous University of Mexico, Central University of Lancashire, Mohammed V University of Morocco, Clermont-Ferrand, France, the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and the University of Panama.
(Data updated to November 2019)
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