On June 5, 2025, a delegation from the School of Foreign Languages and Literatures (SFLL) at Lanzhou University (LZU), led by Vice Dean Zhang Hongli; He Min, Executive Director of Institute of Translating Studies; along with five other representative professors, visited SFS. SFS representatives, including Cheng Bing, Vice Dean of the SFS; Shi Yuxuan, Assistant to the Dean; Lu Yanhua, Director of the Foreign Languages Research Center; Ji Le, Director of the MTI Education Center; Wang Fei, Executive Deputy Director of the XJTU Center for Translation & Interpreting (XJTUCTI); and several faculty members extended a warm welcome to the LZU delegation. Both sides held an exchange meeting afterwards.
Zhang Hongli briefed the attendees on the basic development SFLL and expressed their hope for in-depth exchanges with XJTU in discipline development, scientific research, postgraduate education and internships, as well as MTI education.
Cheng Bing highlighted SFS’s development, academic research, and recent achievements.
Ji Le shared SFS’s distinctive measures for MTI education in aspects of collaborative education programs, dual-teacher training models, optimization of training programs, and development of curriculum systems. She expounded on the innovative approaches to cultivating students' competence in applying translation technologies and developing interdisciplinary talents.
Lu Yanhua introduced achievements of the Foreign Languages Research Center and elaborated the through-type training mechanism for educating interdisciplinary talents focusing on Foreign Languages and Literatures (first-level-discipline) and Systematics of Language and Culture.
Wang Fei introduced the development of XJTUCTI and its contributions to XJTU's international exchanges, development of schools, and cultivation of translation personnel.
Wang Hui introduced the functions and work carried out by XJTU as the Chinese Office of the SCO University.
Both sides engaged in in-depth discussions on topics including postgraduate supervisor selection mechanism, university-enterprise cooperation education bases, corporate mentor recruitment, student internships, employment, and recommendation-based admissions.
