On the afternoon of November 10, 2022, He Li, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of the university, and Yu Hongrong, executive vice minister of the Propaganda Department of the Party Committee, visited the College of Foreign Languages and attended the meeting held by the College to promote the construction of the Understanding Contemporary China course series. Li Pingyou, Secretary of the Party Committee of the College of Foreign Languages, Zhang Yan, Dean of the College, Guo Haixia and Jiang Zhejie, Vice Deans of the College, and the main teachers of the relevant courses attended the meeting. The meeting was carried out in an online and offline manner.
Secretary Li Pinyou welcomed the arrival of Deputy Secretary He Li and Vice Minister Yu Hongrong and thanked the school leaders for their concern and support for the development of the college. Secretary Li Pingyou pointed out that the purpose of the Understanding Contemporary China series of teaching materials is to integrate Xi Jinping's Socialist Thought with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era into the core curriculum of foreign language majors in reading, writing and translation in a comprehensive and systematic way, and to help students consolidate their basic skills in foreign languages. While improving the ability to read, write, speak and translate in foreign languages, they master the discourse system of Chinese characteristics and improve the ability to tell Chinese stories in foreign languages and interpret Chinese practices with Chinese theories. It is of great help to cultivate high-quality international foreign language talents who have a sense of home and country, a global vision and professional skills. Dean Zhang Yan started from the proposition of foreign language and literature discipline that the mission of the discipline lies in telling the Chinese story and spreading the Chinese voice, striving to show the three-dimensional and real China. The textbook series Understanding Contemporary China can train students how to disseminate authentic and rigorous concepts, voices and ideas of Chinese thought in a foreign language and in a way that audiences can understand and accept, which is the need of the current times. Vice President Guo Haixia gave a detailed report on the use of the Understanding Contemporary China textbook series, the summer teacher training, organizational management and institutional construction, as well as faculty strength and construction initiatives, one by one. After that, four teachers, Sui Xiaojing, Chen Yefei, Song Zhiping and He Lichao, representing teachers in the course, reported and exchanged their views in the form of lectures.
Deputy Secretary He Li affirmed the efforts made by the college and teachers in the construction of the Understanding Contemporary China course series. He pointed out that we must pay attention to the cultivation of students' international communication ability, because China has solved the problems of being beaten and starving, but has not solved the problem of being scolded yet. There is still a big difference between the real image of China and the West's perception of us. Secretary He stressed that the college should take the opportunity of studying the spirit of the 20th Party Congress to further strengthen the political and theoretical study of the lecturers; take the construction of the series of courses as an opportunity to strengthen the teaching research of the courses, and promote the research projects in a planned and organized manner; continue to increase the investment in the construction of the series of courses, enhance the organizational guarantee, and make early preparations for the construction of the Golden Course of the Civics of the curriculum and the teachers' teaching competition. The government should continue to increase the investment in the construction of the series of courses, strengthen the organizational guarantee, and make early preparations for the construction of the Golden Course of the curriculum and the teachers' teaching competition. Vice Minister Yu pointed out that teachers should be made aware of the necessity of using and offering the course Understanding Contemporary China, which puts forward higher requirements for teachers to understand the content of the textbook and cultivate students' ability to tell the Chinese story well.
(Reported by the College of Foreign Languages office; Translated by Li Huixian)
