As of September 1st, 308 foreign students have completed one-year language learning, graduated from our school, and enrolled in their new schools.
According to the deployment of the China Scholarship Council, in the 2019-2020 academic year, the Preparatory Department for International Students of our school has undertaken the preparatory training task for 407 international undergraduate students from 81 universities who got the Chinese government scholarship. These students come from 84 countries around the world, more than 90% of them have zero Chinese language knowledge, and 67% of the students come from non-English speaking areas. The training is difficult and intense.
At the beginning of the year the Covid-19 broke out. With the management of school and the assistance of various ministries and departments, foreign students deeply feel that the Chinese government attaches great importance to epidemic prevention, fully accept the epidemic prevention and control policy, support the epidemic prevention work, and praises the achievements of epidemic prevention and control. During the epidemic, there were no accidents or infections.
In terms of teaching, in accordance with the requirements of the school's academic affairs office, school staff carry out online teaching, use the educational administration system to conduct examinations and attendance statistics, adhere to the daily summary and weekly meeting system, and timely communicate with students, solve various problems, and help students successfully complete teaching tasks. In the unified national preparatory examination in July, the passing rate of students was more than 95%. In the HSK test, 11 people passed HSK6; 21 people passed HSK5; 181 people passed HSK4, of which 117 students had a score of 250 or more. After just one year of Chinese learning, nearly half of the students are about to reach the equivalent level of HSK5.
Over the years, our school’s preparatory education for foreign students has responded to the call of the country, attaching great importance to the training of international undergraduate students who got the Chinese government scholarship. It has accumulated a lot of experience and achieved good results. In the past three years, it has been the largest base of the Chinese government scholarship preparatory education in China. A total of 2061 qualified foreign students from 121 countries have been trained. In order to expand the international influence of the Northeast Normal University, it improves the quality of undergraduate education for Chinese international students in my country, spreads Chinese culture and contributes to the strength of our school.
(From News Center, translated by Chen Zhongyi, revised by Chen Yanxu)