LanguageIt's the best key to understanding a country, too"One Belt, One Road".Jointly build the premise of national education interconnection and the bridge of people-to-people bonds. In this context, the country urgently needs a number of havesInternational outlook, cross-cultural communication skills, proficiency in the local language, and understanding of the local cultureof compound foreign language talents. At the same time,Cultivating multilingual talents in colleges and universitiesIt has also become an important task and strategic focus of foreign language universities.
Recently, byBeijing University of Foreign ChineseThe preparatory meeting for the "National Alliance for Cultivating Multilingual Talents in Colleges and Universities" and the "Multilingual Translation Branch of the Translators Association of China" was held in Beijing.
More than 80 people, including Yang Dan, President of Beijing Foreign Studies, Jia Wenjian, Vice President, Sun Youzhong, Vice President, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Sichuan University of Foreign Chinese, Xi'an University of Chinese Foreign , Beijing Second University of Foreign ChineseStudies, Dalian University of Foreign Chinese and other universities, heads of academic affairs departments, heads of relevant faculties, and leaders of many foreign Chinese schools attended the meeting online and offline.
Yang Dan said that Beijing University of Foreign Chinese has the advantages of language, network and coordination, and believes that the establishment of the alliance and translation branch led by Beijing Foreign University will make new contributions to the cultivation of multilingual talents in Chinese universities.
Sun Youzhong analyzed the importance and urgency of the current multilingual talent training, and expressed his views on how to cultivate multilingual talents. He believes that the cultivation of compound talents is the basic concept of multilingual talent training, compound talents include language compound, professional compound, ability compound and cultural compound, compound path includes one-stop compound, two-station compound and three-station compound, compound logic for compound foundation, compound voyage, ability orientation, international training.
In the autumn of 2013, we will build together with the world""One Belt, One Road"."The grand initiative was proposed. In the past ten years, the "circle of friends" of the "Belt and Road" has expanded from the Eurasian continent to Africa, Latin America and other regions"Hard connection".Expand"Soft connection" and "heart connection"., set upThe world's most extensive and largest international cooperation platformIt will become a road of cooperation, a road of opportunity and a road of prosperity for the joint development of the country.
Language talents are the most concerned by domestic ** and netizens""One Belt, One Road"."Types of talents (**Belt and Road" Big Data Report (2017)).
With the continuous advancement of high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, high-quality cooperation projects have taken root in countries along the Belt and Road, and exchanges and mutual learning among different civilizations have been carried outThere is an urgent need for a large number of talents who can read each other and have in-depth dialogues
Beijing University of Foreign ChineseAs a top university in domestic language universities, it is the first to be launched in close combination with the needs of national strategic development to educate people for the party and the countryThe international talent training strategy of "compound language".Innovate the education model, focus on the fields of international communication, international organizations, and regional and national talents, and cultivate high-end compound talents with family and country feelings, global vision, and professional skills.
At present, the Beijing Foreign Language Institute has been opened101 speciesForeign Chinese languages, covered182 pcsAll countries with diplomatic relations with China193 pcsThe official language used by UN Member States (data as of December 2023), is:The largest in the countryThe training base of foreign language talents.
The school has always maintained the leading discipline advantages and high level of teaching quality in the country, which is currently ownedOur country has the largest coverageof universities with non-lingua franca construction bases (European language population, Asian and African language population), foreign Chinese language and literature were selectedThe country is "double first-class".Construction discipline, Ministry of Education discipline evaluationHighest rating of A+。At present, Beijing Foreign Language and Literature disciplines have fully formed a pattern of coordinated development Chinese of literature, law, economics, management, education and other disciplines with foreign language and literature as the main body.
In recent years, BFSU has been innovating the talent training model and vigorously cultivating "compound language" foreign language talents. Foreign language undergraduate majors are implementedBilingual teachingStudents who have spare time can study a third foreign language, so that students can master the professional foreign language + the second foreign language English. In addition to registering for the foreign language examinations of universities in various languages, students are also eligible to apply for the English examinationLevel 4 and Level 8 for language majorsExamination.
At the same time, students are encouraged to engage in interdisciplinary learning. InMinor MajorThere are 10 courses in the training direction, including language skills, communication studies, economic studies, and interdisciplinary modules. Such as international Chinese language education, journalism, communication, international economics and **, diplomacy, law, etc.
In addition, Beijing Foreign Language University has launched a series of innovative measures for talent training, including cooperation with four "double first-class" universities in Beijing, focusing on the extension development of high-level foreign language talents in foreign-related professional fields and interdisciplinary research ability training in the new era"Multilingual x First-class Discipline Major".There are 4 cross-school joint trainingsJoint training majors；Build bridges between students and develop students' global competencies, with:Tsinghua University, Peking Universityand other 4 "985" colleges and universitiesCross-school electivesThe four universities offer more than 100 high-quality courses to each other, and students can take undergraduate general education courses that they are interested in.
Accompanied by the school song of "If the people need us to arrive, we will come", the students of Beijing Foreign University in the new era have also witnessed the "development belt" and the "happy road" benefiting the people of China and the country in the ten years since the implementation of the "Belt and Road" initiative
Xu Haiyue(2022 master's student in the field of Russian Language and Literature Regional Studies, Institute of Russian Language): During my precious internship experience, I personally experienced that the opportunities brought by the Belt and Road Initiative to various countries are not only economic development and bilateral development, but also people-to-people exchanges and experience sharing. It is not only "teaching people to fish", but also "teaching people to fish".
Zhao Chuye(2022 Master's Student, Italian Language and Literature, Institute of European Languages and Cultures): The students I took classes with at Sapienza University of Rome were more than 10 Italian students who had studied Chinese for four years. Their dream is to go to China, and this wish has been realized by the Belt and Road Initiative.
Li Wanxuan(2020 undergraduate student majoring in Spanish at the Spanish and Portuguese Language Institute): When I was studying economics in Uruguay, my teacher always mentioned China in class and praised China's strong productivity and economic vitality. In the official newspapers of Uruguay, it can also be seen that the economic and trade exchanges between China and Uruguay are getting closer and closer, and China has become Uruguay's largest partner.
Dong Jieyu(2021 undergraduate student majoring in Malagasy language, African College): Whenever you pass by the Mahamasina Stadium and see the "China-Malaysia friendship, evergreen" on the stone tablet, it is like seeing a mirror, reflecting the friendship and cooperation behind the "Belt and Road". The construction of this stadium has become a symbol of China-Malaysia friendship and the beginning of the Belt and Road Initiative in this land.
Wang Ruiyang(2021 undergraduate student majoring in Lao Language at Asia College): The China-Laos Railway, the "steel dragon", crosses mountains and rivers, promotes economic and trade cooperation and cultural exchanges between China and Laos and the region, and becomes a major channel connecting the inside and outside, radiating the surrounding areas, and helping each other in both directions.
Shi Weiyang(2021 undergraduate student majoring in Filipino at Asia College): Studying and living in the Philippines has made me deeply feel the influence and potential of the Belt and Road Initiative. In recent years, local infrastructure construction has made great progress in relying on the Belt and Road Initiative, and the local people are also full of expectations for the development of the Belt and Road Initiative.
The ambition of the youth, the practice of far-reaching. As the Belt and Road Initiative enters a new decadeThe huge world stage is opening up to more foreign language talents.
In the future, BFSU will continue to practice the mission of "communicating with China and foreign countries, helping the world", take it as its mission to cultivate more interdisciplinary talents with family and country feelings, global vision and professional skills, and give full play to the advantages of multilingualism"Pave the way with language and promote people-to-people bonds".It will inject a steady stream of talent power into the national Belt and Road Initiative and the globalization process. Contribute wisdom and strength to promote national development and the progress of human civilization.
Note: Some of the content in the article is published in Beijing University of Foreign Chinese, Beijing University of Foreign Chinese and News Network, and China Belt and Road Network.