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Beijing Foreign Studies University
China

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Official website: https://www.bfsu.edu.cn/
Tel：010-88816254,010-88816481
Address：No. 2, West Third Ring Road North, Haidian District, Beijing
Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) is located on West Third Ring Road North, Haidian District, Beijing. It has two campuses, East and West, on both sides of the Third Ring Road. It is directly under the Ministry of Education, one of the first batch of "211 Project" universities, a "985" advantage discipline innovation platform university, and one of the first batch of "Double First-Class" universities. BFSU is the first foreign language college founded by the Communist Party of China. Its predecessor was the Russian language team of the Third Branch of the Chinese Anti-Japanese Military and Political University established in Yan'an in 1941. It later developed into the Foreign Languages School of the Central Military Commission and was under the leadership of the Party Central Committee since its establishment. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the school was under the leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1954, it was renamed Beijing Foreign Studies University. In 1959, it merged with the Beijing Russian Language Institute to form the new Beijing Foreign Studies University. After 1980, it was directly under the leadership of the Ministry of Education and officially changed its name to Beijing Foreign Studies University in 1994. BFSU has been approved to offer 101 foreign languages. The European language group and the Asian and African language group are currently the largest non-universal language construction bases in my country and are the first batch of characteristic professional construction points of the Ministry of Education. The school has formed a pattern of coordinated development of multiple disciplines such as literature, law, economics, management and education, with foreign languages and literature as the main discipline. In chronological order, the school offers Russian, English, French, German, Spanish, Polish, Czech, Romanian, Japanese, Arabic, Cambodian, Lao, Sinhalese, Malay, Swedish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Albanian, Bulgarian, Swahili, Burmese, Indonesian, Italian, Croatian, Serbian, Hausa, Vietnamese, Thai, Turkish, Korean, Slovak, Finnish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Norwegian, Icelandic, Danish, Greek, Filipino, Hindi, Urdu, Hebrew, Persian, Slovenian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Irish, Maltese, Bengali, Kazakh, Ukrainian, and other languages. Azbek, Latin, Zulu, Kyrgyz, Pashto, Sanskrit, Pali, Amharic, Nepali, Somali, Tamil, Turkmen, Catalan, Yoruba, Mongolian, Armenian, Malagasy, Georgian, Azerbaijani, Afrikaans, Macedonian, Tajik, Setswana, Ndebele, Comorian, Creole, Shona, Tigrinya, Belarusian, Maori, Tonga, Samoan, Kurdish, Bislama, Dari, Tetum, Dhivehi, Fijian, Cook Islands Maori, Lundi, Luxembourgish, Kinyarwanda, Niuean, Pidgin, Chewa, Setsutho, Sangho, Tamazigot, Javanese, and Punjabi. The school upholds the spirit of Yan'an and insists on serving the national strategy. At present, it has opened the official language of countries that have established diplomatic relations with China. In recent years, the school has vigorously promoted the reform of talent training mode, established the first teaching material department of domestic universities, established Beijing Foreign Studies University College, International Organization College, and International Education College. On the basis of the original Asian and African College, it has expanded into the Asian College and the African College, established the Key Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Human Language, strengthened the construction of international communication capabilities, and established the Institute of International Communication of Chinese Culture, the National Translation Capacity Research Center and other characteristic research institutions. The school has 52 national and provincial research bases, including the Ministry of Education's Key Research Base for Humanities and Social Sciences: China Foreign Language and Education Research Center, the Ministry of Education's Philosophy and Social Sciences Laboratory (cultivation): Key Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Human Language, the National Language Committee Research Center: National Language Capacity Development Research Center, 4 Ministry of Education's Regional and Country Research Cultivation Bases: Central and Eastern European Research Center, Japan Research Center, British Research Center, Canadian Research Center, as well as 37 Ministry of Education's Country and Regional Research Registration Centers, 3 Ministry of Education's Sino-Foreign Humanities Exchange Research Centers: China-Indonesia Humanities Exchange Research Center, China-France Humanities Exchange Research Center, and China-Germany Humanities Exchange Research Center. The school also has Beijing Key Research Base for Philosophy and Social Sciences, Beijing Education and Law Research Base, and has been selected as the first batch of national language promotion bases, the first batch of Beijing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics Research Center Research Base, and has been awarded the Beijing University Socialism with Chinese Characteristics Theory Research Collaborative Innovation Center. The school hosts four CSSCI source journals, "Foreign Language Teaching and Research", "Foreign Literature", "International Forum", and "Foreign Language Education Research Frontier", and two CSSCI extended version source journals, "International Sinology" and "Chinese Russian Teaching", and publishes 7 other Chinese academic journals; it hosts the ESCI English journal "Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics" and other multilingual journals, totaling 12, covering 7 languages including English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, German, and Portuguese. The school has the largest publishing base for foreign language books, audio-visual and electronic products in the country: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. BFSU offers 121 undergraduate majors, of which 47 are the only majors in the country, 54 are national first-class undergraduate majors, and 18 are provincial first-class undergraduate majors. 8 teaching achievements won the 2021 Beijing Higher Education Teaching Achievement Award, including:The "BFSU Model for Cultivating Multilingual Global Competence" won the special prize. The school currently has 4 national key disciplines (including cultivation disciplines) and 7 Beijing key disciplines. It has 2 first-level doctoral programs (foreign languages and literature, management science and engineering), 11 first-level academic master's programs (foreign languages and literature, Chinese languages and literature, journalism and communication, law, political science, Marxist theory, applied economics, management science and engineering, business administration, education, world history), and 8 professional master's programs (translation, Chinese international education, international business, finance, journalism and communication, law, accounting, and master of business administration), covering seven major disciplines: literature, economics, management, law, education, history, and engineering. The discipline of foreign languages and literature has been selected as a national "double first-class" construction discipline. "Foreign Language Education" has been approved as a high-end discipline in Beijing universities. In the fourth round of national discipline evaluation results, the school's first-level discipline of foreign languages and literature was rated A+, ranking first in the country. In the 2023 QS World University Rankings by Subject, the school's language degree ranked 45th, English language and literature ranked 101-150, and modern language degree ranked 151-200, ranking first among similar institutions in China. The school has more than 5,700 undergraduate students, more than 3,900 graduate students (masters and doctors), and more than 1,300 international students. BFSU focuses on innovating talent management mechanisms and comprehensively improving the level of the teaching staff. There are more than 1,300 on-the-job faculty and staff, and nearly 200 long-term and short-term foreign teachers from 65 countries and regions. The school has high-level teachers such as winners of the "Friendship Medal" of the People's Republic of China, national outstanding teachers, young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions at the national level, distinguished professors of the "Yangtze River Scholars Award Program", young Yangtze River Scholars, leading talents in philosophy and social sciences of the National Special Support Program for High-level Talents, famous teachers and young top talents, national 100,000 Talents Project, and national "four batches" of talents. More than 90% of the teachers have overseas study experience. The teaching team of the China Foreign Language and Education Research Center and the talent training team for global governance and international organizations were selected as the "Huang Danian-style teaching team of national universities". BFSU has signed exchange and cooperation agreements with 299 universities and academic institutions in 84 countries and regions in the world, and has established substantial cooperative relations with famous overseas universities such as Brown University in the United States, University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom, Heidelberg University in Germany, Moscow State University in Russia, University of Toronto in Canada, Institut des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris, France, University of Tokyo in Japan, and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. The school has built 23 Confucius Institutes and independent Confucius Classrooms in 18 countries in Asia, Europe and America, ranking first among domestic universities, of which 7 are global model Confucius Institutes. In order of unveiling time, the Confucius Institutes (classrooms) are: Confucius Institute in Nuremberg-Erlangen, Germany; Confucius Institute in Brussels, Belgium; Confucius Institute at the University of Vienna, Austria; Confucius Institute at the University of Rome, Italy; Confucius Institute in Krakow, Poland; Confucius Institute in Liege, Belgium; Confucius Institute in Düsseldorf, Germany; Confucius Institute at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary; Confucius Institute in Sofia, Bulgaria; Confucius Institute at Palacky University, Czech Republic; Confucius Institute in Munich, Germany; Confucius Institute at the University of Malaya, Malaysia; Confucius Institute at the University of Foreign Studies, Hankuk; Confucius Institute in Barcelona, Spain; Confucius Institute at Moscow State Linguistic University, Russia; Confucius Institute at Zayed University, UAE; Confucius Institute at the University of Tirana, Albania; Confucius Institute at the University of Göttingen, Germany; Confucius Institute at Oxford Brookes University, UK; Confucius Institute at the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka; Confucius Institute at ESCP Europe Business, France; Confucius Classroom at Maryknoll School, USA; and Online Confucius Institute at the Open University, UK. The library of BFSU has a collection of nearly 1.57 million paper books in Chinese and foreign languages, more than 2.16 million electronic books in Chinese and foreign languages, 1,081 Chinese and foreign newspapers and periodicals, and 107 Chinese and foreign databases, forming a collection feature with language, literature, and culture as the main materials. In recent years, with the development of discipline construction, literature in politics, law, diplomacy, economy, news, and management has gradually formed a collection system. The school continues to strengthen the construction of educational informatization, forming an informatization development system of "openness, interconnection, intelligence, innovation, and integration", developing multilingual websites, digital BFSU, data centers, online teaching, teaching resources and other software platforms; building smart classrooms and smart learning environments, and forming a number of landmark achievements. In 2021, the first batch of pilot projects of the Ministry of Education's artificial intelligence-assisted teacher team building action in BFSU will be completed, and the "BFSU Initiative on Artificial Intelligence to Promote the Development of College Teachers" will be released. The World Language Museum will be built to create a new landmark of language and culture, and a new school history museum will be completed to fully display the history of BFSU. BFSU inherits the red gene, serves the national strategy, adheres to the school-running philosophy of "specializing in foreign affairs" and the school motto of "inclusiveness, erudition and practice", promotes the "red, professional and elegant" campus culture, cultivates the BFSU spirit, implements the fundamental task of cultivating people with moral integrity, and becomes an important base for cultivating high-quality foreign-related talents in diplomacy, translation, education, trade, journalism, law, finance, etc. Batches of graduates from BFSU are spread all over the world and all over the country, active in all walks of life, making contributions and outstanding achievements, becoming elites and pillars of society. According to incomplete statistics, among the alumni of BFSU, more than 400 have served as ambassadors abroad and more than 2,000 have served as counselors. Therefore, the school has won the reputation of "the cradle of diplomats of the Republic". At present, the school holds high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, takes Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as its guide, fully implements the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, follows General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important expositions on education, the spirit of the National Education Conference, and the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important reply to the old professors of BFSU, implements the spirit of the 10th Party Congress of the school and the "14th Five-Year Plan", adheres to and strengthens the party's overall leadership, implements the strategy of strengthening the school with talents, developing the school with academics, and establishing the school globally, aims to build an international, distinctive, high-level, comprehensive, world-class foreign language university, and takes "communication between Chinese and foreign languages, and benefiting the world with virtues" as its mission, cultivates more compound talents with patriotism, global vision, and professional skills, and makes new and greater contributions to promoting China to better go to the world and the world to better understand China!