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About Beijing Chinese Language and Culture College

Beijing Chinese Language and Culture College (formerly a secondary cram school for returned overseas Chinese students in Beijing) was founded in 1950. It was established under the kind care of Premier Zhou Enlai and personally presided over by famous social activists and leaders of the overseas Chinese community, Mrs. He Xiangning and Mr. Liao Chengzhi. The first cram school established by New China to recruit returned overseas Chinese students. The college is affiliated to the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. It is currently the only professional college in Mainland China that specializes in Chinese education for the children of overseas Chinese.

After the founding of New China on October 1, 1949, a large number of overseas Chinese youth returned to China to devote themselves to the construction of New China. In order to help overseas Chinese students to master Chinese as soon as possible, understand the national conditions, and adapt to the needs of future study and work, the Overseas Chinese Affairs Committee of the Central People’s Government (the predecessor of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council) established the “Beijing Returned Overseas Chinese Students Secondary School” in 1950 (Beijing Huawen The predecessor of the college). There were 22,250 students who returned to China in the 1950s and 1960s and registered with the overseas Chinese in Beijing. After a period of tuition, many of them have been admitted to colleges and universities across the country to continue their studies, and will make extraordinary achievements in their respective fields in the future. Another group of returned overseas students actively responded to the call of the country and went to the northeast, Inner Mongolia and southwest borders successively, dedicating their youth to the cause of supporting the border construction of the motherland.

After the school was reopened in the 1980s, according to the background and requirements of the time, the school further clarified and strengthened its characteristics of serving overseas Chinese. Beijing Overseas Chinese Make-up School has once again become one of the first choices for overseas students to study abroad. In November 1999, the school was upgraded to the Beijing Chinese Education Center; in May 2000, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, the Beijing Chinese Education Center was renamed Beijing Chinese College.



Beijing Chinese Language and Culture College has two campuses, which can accommodate about 2,000 students studying and living on campus at the same time. Fuwai Campus is located in the center of Beijing, only 5 kilometers away from Tiananmen Square. The Changping campus is located in Changping District, Beijing. It was officially opened in March 2013. It covers a total area of nearly 15 hectares and a building area of nearly 70,000 square meters. The college has advanced teaching and living facilities, complete functions, a beautiful environment, and convenient transportation. The tree-lined natural atmosphere on the campus is integrated with the architectural style of Chinese and Western. It is an ideal for the majority of Chinese youth and foreign students to study Chinese language and culture in China. Place.

Adhering to the tenet of “Developing Overseas Chinese Education and Promoting Cultural Exchanges between China and Foreign Countries”, Beijing Chinese Language and Culture College uses the advantages of Beijing’s language and cultural environment to explore a unique “Overseas Chinese” school running model that combines classroom teaching and social practice. It is in the field of Chinese education. It is unique and has attracted the attention and praise of people from all walks of life at home and abroad. For more than 70 years, Beijing Chinese Language and Culture College has attracted nearly 200,000 Chinese youths, Chinese teachers, and government officials from more than 140 countries and regions to study and study Chinese language and culture. Today, the overseas Chinese students trained by Beijing Chinese Language and Culture University are spread all over the world. Many of them have become business leaders, academic elites, political figures, leaders of overseas Chinese groups, and backbones of Chinese schools in their countries. They are inheriting Chinese culture and promoting Sino-foreign friendship. And other aspects have played a unique and important role.

Beijing College of Chinese Language and Literature is committed to the construction of “three centers”, namely, a training center for high-quality Chinese teachers, a research and development center for the development of Chinese language education in China, and an experience center for Chinese youths and other people who love Chinese culture around the world to study Chinese. To set up the first batch of Chinese education bases and the first batch of national language commission language application training bases. It is also a test center for the Chinese Proficiency Test of China and a research base for the Beijing Language Commission. The college recruits students from all over the world, and offers various long-term and short-term courses throughout the year, including Chinese education majors, undergraduate courses, junior college courses, Chinese language courses, HSK intensive courses, summer Chinese short-term courses, Chinese summer and winter camps, and Chinese teachers Seminars and seminars on Chinese language and culture for foreign government officials, etc.

The college has a team of outstanding faculty who love Chinese education, are familiar with the characteristics of overseas Chinese students, and have rich teaching and management experience. Among the nearly 100 full-time teachers, 30% have 1-3 years of overseas teaching experience, 90% have a master’s degree or above, including 30 doctoral students and 16 teachers with senior titles of associate professor or above. Many teachers have either graduated from prestigious schools or studied under prestigious teachers, and have continuously emerged in the field of Chinese education at home and abroad. In recent years, the college has organized the compilation of the Chinese education volume and the Chinese media volume of the “General History of Overseas Chinese in the World”, which is the first general history of overseas Chinese and Chinese in China; organized the compilation of a 10-volume series of “Research on Chinese Language Teaching”, which is a systematic summary of Chinese in the country. A series of classic works on teaching laws. In 2014, two language projects were approved by the “National Social Science Fund Project”. In 2016, one language project was approved by the “National Social Science Fund Project”. Since 2014, the college has been the editor-in-chief of the National Language Commission The project “Report on the Situation of Chinese Language Life”, a green paper on Chinese language life is regularly published every year. By participating in the above-mentioned national scientific research projects, the comprehensive scientific research ability and level of the college have been significantly improved.

The current long-term students of the college are all from overseas, from five continents, mainly including Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Mongolia, Brazil, Ecuador and other countries and regions. At the same time, the college’s colorful short-term language and cultural experience and research and training programs attract thousands of young people, Chinese teachers, and foreign government officials from all over the world every year. After studying and training in our college, the Chinese language ability of all students and trainees has been significantly improved, and their understanding and experience of Chinese culture and history have become more profound, and they have become bridges and messengers for promoting cultural exchanges and economic cooperation between countries in the world and China.