On December 15, the inaugural session of the Steering Committee for Guidance in the Teaching of Foreign Languages and Literature Majors in Higher Educations Institutions 2018-2022 and the Seminar on the Revitalization and Development of the Undergraduate Programs of Foreign Language Majors in the New Era was held in Beijing. Professor Zhou Yifu from the College of Foreign Languages was re-elected as a member of the Steering Sub-Committee for Guidance in Japanese Major Teaching. Professor Liu Zuoyan and Professor Quan Helv were newly appointed as members of Steering Sub-Committee for Guidance in Russian Major Teaching and Steering Sub-Committee for Guidance in Non-General Language Major Teaching respectively.
The Committee has seven Steering Sub-Committees for Guidance in Teaching, including English, Russian, German, French, Arabic, Japanese, and non-general language majors. The relevant leaders of the Ministry of Education and the new leaders of the Steering Committee awarded letters of appointment to all the members attending the session.
In the session, people conscientiously comprehended the spirit of general secretary Xi Jinping’s speech delivered at the National Education Conference and the meeting of sub-committees was held. Based on the speeches of Minister Chen Baosheng, Vice Minister Lin Huiqing and Director-General Wu Yan at the inaugural session of Steering Committee for Guidance in Teaching in Higher Education Institutions 2018-2022, focusing on accurately grasping the positioning of the new general staff, advisory group, steering group and promotion team of the Steering Committee for Guidance in the Teaching of Foreign Languages and Literature Majors, corresponding ideas and plans were put forward to build a team of experts who are useful, trustworthy, reliable and inseparable and to complete the “six first-class” task with the style of moving, working and getting busy.
