Recently, the Education Department of Jiangsu Province released the results of the first approved key construction projects for internationalized talent training in the ‘Fourteenth Five-year Plan’, in which our major ‘Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages’ was successfully included. The Education Department of Jiangsu Province has been carrying forward the internationalized talent training brand specialty program for colleges and universities since 2021 under the ‘Fourteenth Five-year Plan’, planning to select among first-class universities,other universities and higher vocational schools to build 100 provincial brand specialties for the training of internationalized talents in 2021-2025. The first list this year includes 50 projects. The program aims to support the training of high-level and internationalized talents in colleges and universities based on their advanced and characteristic disciplines, promote high-quality foreign exchanges and international cooperation in scientific research, and thus enhance the international competitiveness of Jiangsu Province in higher education. JSNU is also successfully included in the international talents development program and international research collaboration platform program of Jiangsu Province.With emphasis on application of this project, strict review of application materials, carefully organized online question-and-answer session and the support from relevant departments and colleges, JSNU has received good grades in material appraisal and defense. Successful approval of this project will further contribute to construction of Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages into a first-class undergraduate major in China and a brand specialty in Jiangsu Province, as well as the level of internationalized school management and internationalized talent training.
