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Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) is one of China’s top universities under the direct leadership of the Chinese Ministry of Education. It is listed under Project 985, Project 211 and Double First-Class Project of China. Located in Haidian District, Beijing, it has two campuses- the West Campus and the East Campus, separated by the North Xisanhuan Road.

Today, BFSU teaches 101 foreign languages. It is the first in China to offer courses in some less commonly taught European, Asian and African languages. While best known for its excellence in foreign languages & literature, and has also launched programs in more fields such as humanities, law, economics，management，etc.

Today BFSU has 33 teaching and research institutions, many of which were newly launched in recent years. These new institutions include an international graduate school jointly run by BFSU and the University of Nottingham (UK), BFSU Academy of Language Sciences, BFSU Academy of Foreign Literature Studies, BFSU Academy of Regional and Global Governance, BFSU Academy of Comparative Civilization and Intercultural Communication, Beiwai College, School of Global Governance, and Graduate School of Education. Furthermore, the School of Asian and African Studies was reorganized and split into two separate schools ——School of Asian Studies and School of African Studies.

BFSU attaches great importance to academic development of its faculty. To enhance its international exposure, BFSU works in partnership with 313 universities and academic institutions in 91 countries and regions. It has cooperation programs with many foreign universities, including the University of Nottingham, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Moscow State Linguistic University, University of Göttingen, Sapienza University of Rome, Eötvös Loránd University, Jagiellonian University, etc. BFSU also works as a partner with foreign universities to operate 23 Confucius Institutes and Classrooms in 18 countries. 

Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU) is a university directly under the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China. In June 1996, it was then renamed as Beijing Language and Culture University.

BLCU is known as the Mini-United Nations; it is the only university of its kind in China that specializes in offering Chinese language and culture courses to foreign students. Along with the expansion of China’s International cooperation and exchanges, BLCU has also built tighter and broader connection with the world. BLCU has established partnership with over 359 universities and educational institutions in 61 countries and regions. It has formed an international education pattern with omni-directional, multi-level and wide-ranging features. Working with Harvard University, BLCU built the Harvard-Beijing Academy. It established BLCU Bangkok College in Thailand and Tokyo College in Japan.

BLCU conducts Sino-foreign joint programs in various forms. It conducted joint-degree programs in undergraduate and graduate levels with over 10 foreign universities, such as Webster University and George Mason University in the U.S., Konstanz University of Applied Sciences in Germany and University of Manchester in Britain. BLCU has co-established 18 Confucius Institutes and 2 independent Confucius Classrooms, and was awarded the “Outstanding Confucius Institute Chinese Partner of the Year”.

Dalian Ocean University (DOU) was founded in 1952, and located in the beautiful coastal city of Dalian. DOU has the Yellow Sea Campus, the Bohai Sea Campus, and the Wafangdian Campus. DOU is the only comprehensive university which features aquaculture, oceanic science and technology in northern China. In 2017, the university was selected into the "Provincial Top University Key Construction University". 

The First-class discipline of aquatic products is the "double first-class" construction discipline of Liaoning Province, which is the fourth subject in the fourth round of subject evaluation of the Ministry of Education. DOU has one state-level innovational experimental area for talent training mode, one state-level experiment, and teaching demonstration center, one state-level comprehensive reform experimental major of local undergraduate majors, 3 state-level characteristic specialties. 

DOU has established international exchange and collaboration with 72 university research institutes with 13 countries and regions in Asia, North America, Europe, and Australia. A new Government approved undergraduate engineering program delivered jointly by DOU and New Zealand’s Otago Polytechnic provides the undergraduate courses in Mechanical Design, Manufacturing, and automation with the “3+1” cultivation co-up mode. DOU has held inter-university exchange and joint training programs with many universities and colleges in the UK, the US, Russia, South Korea, Japan, Australia, Taiwan, and other countries and regions, and has been approved by China Scholarship Council as the implementation institution of "Outstanding Undergraduate International Program". Moreover, DOU actively trains international students in various modes and levels. Students come from Japan, South Korea, Russia, Bangladesh, and other countries.  

East & West International Education (EWIE) has developed its own International Foundation Certificate (IFC) program and International Pre-Master Program(IPMP). The articulation of the foundation courses embraces the merits of various similar programs in the field and adopts the most popular contents required for foundation studies. Both IFC and IPMP have gained wide accreditations from universities in the U. K,

U.S.A., Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, lreland, France, Spain, Italy and Germany, and from many other educational institutions as well. These programs have been regarded as well-paved pathways for Chinese students to go abroad for further academic studies.

With regard to future development, EWIE is dedicated to the promotion of education internationalization across the globe. With more input in academic research, it aims to step up the development of more tailored international educational programs for local educational institutions as well as individuals. Through close cooperation with schools, colleges and universities at home and abroad, EWIE will endeavor to create more opportunities for high-quality education in China and around the world, and more opportunities for young students of all countries to go and study in other countries.

Foshan University (FOSU), is a high level educational institution of science and engineering governed by the Chinese Ministry of Education (MOE), Guangdong province as well as Foshan city, located in the city of Foshan, a renowned ancient town.

FOSU was listed in the scheme of operating high level science and engineering universities in 2015, which Guangdong government endeavors strengthening higher education development. From then onwards, she became provincial post-doctoral innovating matrix and qualified for preparing doctoral degree programs in 2017.She is numbered 228th (out of more than 1,200) according to ARWU ranking in terms of “the Best University in China”2020.

FOSU ranked the second for her contribution to local social and economic development over the seven consecutive years from 2012 to 2018. She is also the winner of China Industry-University-Research Cooperation and Innovation Award over 5 consecutive years from 2015 to 2019, and therefore she gained the title of Industry-University-Research Integration and Innovation Institution in Guangdong Annual Education Honorary List,2017.

FOSU attributes great importance to pursuing a global development of cross-cultural education and has been carrying out extensive international exchanges and cooperation with more than 60 universities and research institutes over 20 countries and regions. Actions are taken to carry out multifaceted talent training, academic exchanges and scientific research cooperation to enhance academic orientation through international cooperation. At the same time, she has been effortlessly assigning visiting scholars to foreign countries and introducing overseas talents, orientating her faculties with global perspectives.

Guizhou University (GZU), originally established in 1902, was first known as Guizhou Institute of Higher Learning. Other names have included, Provincial Guizhou University, National Guizhou College of Agriculture and Engineering, and National Guizhou University. The name “Guizhou University” was formally adopted in October 1950. In November 1951, Chairman Mao Zedong inscribed the name for 'Guizhou University'. In August 1997, it merged with Guizhou Agricultural College and some other institutions. In August 2004, it merged with Guizhou University of Technology. In December 2004, it became one of the higher institutions partially funded by the

Ministry of Education and the Guizhou Provincial People’s Government. In September 2005, it was listed as one of China's '211 Project' universities. In September 2012, it was recognized as one of the 14 universities in the “Midwest Universities Comprehensive Strength Promotion Project”. In April 2016, it was listed as a national-level key sponsored university in the “One Province, One School” project in the Midwest of China. In September 2017, GZU was included in the national “Double First-Class” Initiative to develop world-class disciplines. In November 2017, the university was awarded its first “National Civilized Campus” title. In February 2018, GZU became a higher institution that is to be jointly developed via ministerial-provincial cooperation.

GZU, committed to international exchanges and collaborative education, has established long-standing relationships for exchanges and cooperation with more than 150 universities or research institutions across more than 40 countries and regions. It has been approved to be the International Education Aid Base by the Ministry of Education (MOE), International Science & Technology Cooperation Base under the Ministry of Science and Technology, the institution offering Chinese Government Scholarship, and the institution offering Confucius Institute Scholarship. GZU has two Confucius Institutes, one co-built with the Presbyterian College in the United States, and the other co-founded with the University of the Gambia. Furthermore, the University has been actively engaged in international associations such as the IAUP (International Association of University Presidents), AUAP (Association of Universities of Asia and the Pacific), and EPU (Eurasia-Pacific Uninet). Since 2008, GZU has hosted and co-organized “China-ASEAN Education Cooperation Week” together with other related activities for 11 consecutive years.

The university is formerly known as Guizhou Institute of Education, which was founded in 1978. In March 2009, upon the approval by Ministry of Education, Guizhou Institute of Education was transformed into a full-time undergraduate college, and renamed Guizhou Education University. In 2016, the university was included into the list of the project entities entitled to confer Master's Degree during the "13th Five-Year" period. 

The university, upholding the philosophy of open education, has established friendly cooperation with universities and educational institutions in the United States, Canada, Thailand, Taiwan and other countries and regions, joined the "International Education Union", and established counterpart relations with universities such as Central China Normal University, and signed cooperation agreement with Tencent Cloud Computing (Beijing) Co., Ltd., education bureaus of various cities (prefectures) in Guizhou Province, People’s Government of Wudang District, Guiyang as well as other enterprises, education firms and local governments for cooperation in education. 

The university has won the honorary titles of the first batch(s) of "energy saving universities", “energy-saving model campus” and "civilized campus" in Guizhou's Universities. The university has been appraised as "National Training Base for Principals of Primary And Middle Schools in the Western Region of Ministry of Education", "Training Center for Guizhou Administrative Cadres of Education Sector", "Continual Education and Training Base for Secondary School Teachers in Guizhou province", "Environmental Education Base in Guizhou Province", and the only national “Chinese Language Education Base” of Guizhou Province.

Huaqiao University (HQU) was founded in 1960 with its two campuses in Quanzhou and Xiamen of Fujian Province. In 2003, the university was rated as "Excellent" by the Ministry of Education in its first Undergraduate Quality Assessment. In 2018, HQU was selected into the construction plan of world-class universities and world-class disciplines (also named as Double First-Class Initiative) of Fujian Province. In 2018, the university ranked 28th in the comprehensive universities list of Shanghai Ranking's Best Chinese Universities Ranking 2018 and 86th among its general list. HQU is one of the universities that recruit the largest number of overseas students in China. Over 5000 students are from over 60 countries and regions. 

Huaqiao University has frequent exchanges with Thai people from all walks of life. First, we’ve conducted cooperative education and academic exchanges with universities and research institutes in Thailand. We jointly set up Confucius Institutes with Kasetsart University, established the Institute of Thai Studies of Huaqiao University with National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT), and co-hosted China-Thailand Strategy Seminar with NRCT and Thai-Chinese Culture and Economy Association, etc. Second, we’ve cultivated different types of talents for Thai society and spread Chinese culture. More than 800 Chinese language talents were graduated from the program of Chinese Class for Government Officials from Thailand. Third, we’ve kept close communication with all sections of Thai society. Thai royal family, government, senior military officials and business leaders, including Princess Sirindhorn of Thailand, President of the National Assembly of Thailand Somsak Kiatsuranont, Speaker of the Senate of Thailand Nikorn Wairatpanij, and three former Ambassadors to China, have paid many visits to HQU. 

Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)was established in 1952. It is located in Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei Province, on the central banks of the Yangtze River. The university is composed of one main campus situated near the East Lake scenic spot and a satellite medical campus located in the central business district of Hankou on the other side of the Yangtze River.

HUST’s picturesque environment covers an area of over 460 hectares, and the campus has 72% greenery coverage, which has earned it the honorary title “University in the Forest”.

HUST is a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary research university, covering 12 major disciplines: philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, engineering, agriculture, medicine, management and arts, offering a variety of degree programs, including 94 undergraduate programs, 225 master programs, and 184 PhD programs. There are 39 post-doctoral research centers, 7 national key first-level disciplines and 15 national key sub-disciplines. 

HUST has established partnerships with more than 100 renowned universities and research institutions worldwide. Over 1,500 scholars and experts visit and lecture here annually. Since 2013 the campus has welcomed several Nobel Laureates including Prof. Alan J. Heeger, the Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, and Prof. Klaus von Klitzing, German Nobel Prize winner in Physics. Currently around 3,000 international students are studying at HUST. The students coming from different parts of the world gather here for degree and non-degree programs. Some courses are taught in Chinese while most of the degree programs are taught in English. Scholarships are accessible to all the applicants. 

Jiangsu University (JSU) was founded in 1902 sharing the same root with Nanjing University, Southeast University, etc. and has developed to be a national comprehensive key university. In Times Higher Education World University Ranking 2020, JSU ranked 43rd of 2,600 universities in China.

JSU has more than 2,600 faculty members, including 550 professors. 65% of the faculty members have PhD degrees and over 38% have experience of over one-year’s overseas study. The current total enrollment of full-time students amounts to over 37,600, including 12,000 postgraduates, and more than 2,200 international students.

JSU offers 93 undergraduate programs in 12 academic fields: Engineering, Agriculture, Science, Medicine, Management, Economics, Law, Education, Literature, Philosophy, Arts and History. Among all disciplines, 7 ranks top 1% globally in ESI: Engineering, Clinical Medicine, Materials Science, Chemistry, Agricultural Science, Pharmacology & Toxicology, and Biology & Biochemistry. 

JSU has set up cooperation partnership with 190 universities in 53 countries and regions. It is running over 10 joint education programs/double degree program agreements and several national-level international scientific research platforms with universities from the UK, USA, Canada, France, Australia and etc. Specifically, Innovation Talent Introduction Base for Advanced Fluid Machinery Technology is approved as a base under the Innovation Talent Introduction Plan for Higher Education Institution’s Discipline by China’s Ministry of Education and State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs. International Joint Research Center for Health Management of Key Structure of the High-End Equipment and International Cooperative Research Center for Energy-saving Technology of Fluid Engineering Equipment are approved as International Joint Research Center by China’s Ministry of Science and Technology. The Confucius Institute co-built with Graz University, Austria since October 2010 has been playing an important role in strengthening people-to-people ties between China and Austria, even the Europe. Besides, JSU is the Rotating Secretariat of Jiangsu-Side of Jiangsu-UK World-Class University Consortium and the Chair of the International University Consortium for Agricultural Engineering.

Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics (hereinafter referred to as JUFE) was founded in 1923, JUFE encompasses 4 campuses, adhering to the motto of “Honesty, Vitality, Integrity and Tenacity” and the philosophy of “Dedication, Harmony and Perfection” JUFE has cultivated over 200,000 talents with creative minds and entrepreneurship spirit for the society.

Up till now, JUFE has established a complete education framework with undergraduate and postgraduate education at its core, and supplemented by continuing education and international education. JUFE offers 58 undergraduate programs, 96 master programs and 33 doctoral programs.

JUFE were sustained 7th in the 2020 ARWU of China’s universities of Finance and Economics; registered 88th in the 2020 Ranking of Salary Index of Chinese College Graduates, marking the only university in Jiangxi found in the list.

JUFE has attached great significance to and persistently promote internationalization in the past few years. It has established stable partnership with 148 institutions across 40 countries and regions including quite some prestigious universities.  Additionally, JUFE is seeking to run collaborative programs with international partner universities approved by Ministry of Education.  It has put in place Sino-US (JUFE and NYIT) MBA Program, and dual bachelor degrees program of Soft Engineering between JUFE and the Dalarna University; being members of such international organizations as Network of International Business School (NIBS) and United Nations Academic Impact(UNAI); forged 15 programs conducted in English and rolled out its first internationalized English MOOC named Chinese Tax System. All our efforts made in internationalization will connect JUFE with the world and lead it into the future.

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