Teacher Zhu seems to understand the internationalization of universities as the internationalization of enrollment, and the teaching language and teaching mode as the basis of his software. Xu Zhihong, president of Peking University, believes that internationalization does not mean that universities all over the world are inclined to one model. "We are all imitating the American university model. This is indeed the most successful model, but we must pay attention to it. This is not the only successful model. We must learn from Europe and Japan and keep our traditions. "
So, what kind of internationalization do we want and how to internationalize? In fact, the premise of internationalization of China University is autonomy. At best, the university model without independent status is only a poor or not-so-poor imitation of other countries' models, and it is not worthy of the title of "internationalization" at all. Internationalization is not abstract. Nowadays, when we talk about internationalization, many people will think of the American model. On the basis of learning other models, the American model has been creatively transformed with the historical situation of the rise of the United States, and gradually gained the status of "internationalization". The American model that some people admire today is the result that American universities first abandoned the British model, that is, the education of aristocratic classical civilization (Greek and Latin), and introduced the German model, that is, the professional education model of scientific research, to meet the requirements of social and economic development and the strengthening of American national strength at that time. The United States did not simply transplant the German model, but adopted general education on the basis of scientific research and education.
Education) inherited and carried forward the tradition of western civilization in the original British model, thus fundamentally confirming its self-awareness of civilization and realizing the integration of science and humanities. In short, the American model is a new model created on the basis of learning and creatively integrating the British model and the German model. What we want to learn is not the result of this American model, but their construction process and the way to gain world influence. China University has had a lot of experiences and possibilities from the early Japanese model and German model, to the former Soviet model after 1952, and then to the recent American model, plus its own traditional model. The innovation and internationalization of China University lies in integrating these traditions (instead of denying these models in isolation and fragmentation), and creating a new model with the revival of Chinese civilization, which can not only absorb other civilizations and technologies for our use, but also inherit our own civilization and establish our own autonomy, thus creating world influence. This model is the right way to internationalization.