On the afternoon of May 14, a delegation led by Kang Ning and Lei Yongliang, Vice Deans of the School of Foreign Languages of Qingdao University of Science and Technology, visited XJTU. SFS Vice-Dean Li Ying and Assistant to the Dean Shi Yuxuan received the delegation and held an exchange meeting. The two sides held in-depth discussions on discipline and major development, industry-education integration, data-empowered teaching, and teaching reform.
Li Ying extended a warm welcome to the delegation and gave an overview of SFS's faculty, teaching operations, and major development. The two sides exchanged views on the training of interdisciplinary foreign language talents and other relevant issues.
During the discussion, Li Ying shared SFS's experience and distinctive practices in disciplinary development and digital-intelligent empowerment. She noted that based on institutional and disciplinary realities, SFS has kept innovating in faculty recruitment, multi-track training programs, interdisciplinary integration, and digital intelligence application to advance the distinctive, high-quality development of foreign language disciplines.
Shi Yuxuan introduced SFS's practices in industry-education integration. Drawing on the university's strengths and featured disciplines, SFS meets language service demands in medicine, technology, and international communication by cooperating with hospitals, language service enterprises, and Huanqiu.com. The school promotes talent cultivation, major development, and practical teaching through school-enterprise collaboration.
During the discussion, the delegation inquired about other relevant issues, and the two sides fully exchanged views with reference to their respective actual conditions.
At the conclusion, Kang Ning expressed his gratitude and spoke highly of SFS's initiatives and achievements in discipline development and talent cultivation. Both sides pledged to maintain closer communication and collaboration going forward, working hand in hand to advance the high-quality development of foreign language disciplines at both institutions.
