For teachers in colleges and universities, provincial institutions (excluding provincial vertical management units with working places below districts and cities), natural science researchers, engineering and technical personnel, social researchers (excluding those engaged in party history, local chronicles and art research in China), provincial health units and health technicians in hospitals above Class III B (excluding those engaged in traditional Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese medicine and nursing work), The experimental technicians of provincial institutions (excluding middle schools and secondary vocational schools) who declare and review the corresponding series of high and intermediate professional and technical qualifications, and the professional and technical personnel who declare and review senior international business engineers, should take the foreign language grade examination for professional titles organized by the Ministry of Personnel according to the requirements of the original foreign language titles. However, among the above-mentioned personnel, professional and technical personnel who entered institutions of higher learning (including vocational schools) before1979 65438+February 3 1 do not need to declare their professional and technical qualifications in foreign languages. In addition, professional and technical personnel who meet the exemption conditions stipulated in documentsNo. [2002]52 and 154 may apply for exemption of foreign languages.
Except those who are exempt from the test, all professional and technical personnel who do not have foreign language titles must participate. When hiring professional and technical posts, the employer may set foreign language requirements according to the needs of the post. The qualification certificate (excluding the certificate with the validity period of 1 year) obtained by participating in the national foreign language grade examination or the provincial foreign language grade examination is valid for a long time within the specified grade.