2. Introduction School of Zhejiang International Studies University currently enrolls students from 16 provinces (autonomous regions) with 8,486 full-time students. There are English Language and Culture College, Oriental Language and Culture College, Western Language and Culture College, China Language and Culture College, International Economics and Tourism Management College, Education College, cross-border electronic commerce College (Polytechnic College), Art College, Applied Foreign Languages College, Marxism College, Sports Teaching and Research Department, International College and Continuing Education College. There are 34 undergraduate majors, including foreign language major 15 and language 13 (English, Japanese, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Spanish, French, Russian, Korean, German, Czech, Turkish and Polish).
The characteristics of the school are to cultivate high-quality applied talents with family feelings and international vision, pay attention to the integration of foreign language and non-foreign language majors, and strengthen the construction of "foreign language+"and "foreign language+"majors. The characteristics of school personnel training have been recognized by the society. In recent years, the employment rate of fresh graduates has remained above 95%, and many graduates have been admitted to famous universities at home and abroad, such as Columbia University and University of Paris IX. The school has 190 practice education bases. Students have made great achievements in various national and provincial competitions. College student volunteers give full play to their professional expertise and actively serve international conferences and activities such as G20 Hangzhou Summit, previous world internet conference, World Swimming Championships, World Zheshang Conference, World Cultural Exchange Conference, Yiwu Import Commodities Fair in China, etc.
There are 457 full-time teachers in the school, including 187 (40.9%) with the title of associate senior middle school or above, 222 (48.6%) with doctoral degrees, and 195 (42.7%) who have studied abroad for half a year or more. Most foreign language teachers have overseas study experience. Leading talents in philosophy and social sciences countries 1 person, cultural experts and "four groups" talents 1 person, national candidates for the new century's 10 million talents project 1 person, 3 people enjoying special allowances from the State Council, and 2 experts with outstanding contributions in the province. "15 1 Hire 49 well-known experts and scholars at home and abroad as part-time professors.
Five disciplines, including foreign languages and literature, were included in the construction of the first-level discipline (Class B) in the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan. The school is included in the construction plan of new doctoral and master's degree awarding units in Zhejiang Province (20 17-2020), and foreign languages and literature, translation, Chinese international education, international business, tourism management and pedagogy are included in the proposed master's degree program.
The school takes serving local economic and social development as its own responsibility, and actively serves Zhejiang's open and strong province and the internationalization of the city. The Institute of Urban Internationalization has been established, and national and regional research centers (including Arab Research Center, German Research Center and Latin American Research Center), Zhejiang Cultural "Going Out" Collaborative Innovation Center, and more than 20 research institutions in foreign linguistics, applied linguistics and translation have been established. The school is the key training institution of the "National Training Plan" of the Ministry of Education, the key construction base of teacher education in Zhejiang Province, and the training base of international service outsourcing talents in Zhejiang Province. The Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education has a Zhejiang Teacher Training Center and an Education Administrative Cadre Training Center in schools, which carry out all kinds of teacher training and have a good reputation. The school publishes Teaching Monthly (middle school edition), Teaching Monthly (primary school edition), Writing New World, Pupils' World and other newspapers and periodicals.
The school is an international exchange program for outstanding undergraduates of China municipal government and an international exchange program for outstanding undergraduates of Zhejiang province, and has established exchange and cooperation relations with hundreds of universities in more than 40 countries and regions. Through international joint training modes such as mutual recognition of credits and joint awarding of degrees, nearly 400 students are sent every year to recruit international students from all over the world to study in the school, with an average annual enrollment of 150 students. The school actively participates in the international promotion of Chinese, and has established a Confucius Institute in Equatorial Guinea, and the Confucius Institute project in Antigua and Barbuda is also in progress. The undergraduate education program for Spanish majors in cooperation with university of zaragoza, Spain was approved by the Ministry of Education as the first Sino-foreign cooperative education program for Spanish majors (tourism management direction) in China.
The school is located in Xiaoheshan Higher Education Park, adjacent to Xixi Wetland. The campus covers an area of 555.5 mu; It has modern teaching facilities with complete functions, and the foreign language experimental teaching center is a provincial experimental teaching demonstration center; There are basic and professional experimental centers such as multilingual simultaneous interpretation, language laboratory, e-commerce laboratory and national traditional culture laboratory. At present, there are 957,200 paper books in the collection, including 1 18400 original books in multilingual foreign languages; There are 80010.4 million kinds of e-books, including 289,600 kinds of foreign e-books; 1 152 Chinese and foreign newspapers and periodicals; There are 27 Chinese and foreign language databases.
On June+10, 5438, the second party congress of the school was held, which established the general idea and goal for the next five years and painted a grand blueprint for development. At present, the school is making efforts to build a key base for cultivating international talents in Zhejiang Province, a think tank highland for serving Zhejiang's open and strong provinces, and an important position for Zhejiang's international cultural and educational exchanges. We are making unremitting efforts to build our school into an application-oriented university with distinctive foreign language characteristics and national first-class education quality, and strive to fully demonstrate our responsibilities, contributions and strength outside Zhejiang in the grand journey of realizing the Chinese nation's great rejuvenation of the Chinese dream and promoting the construction of "two high levels" in Zhejiang!