A Brief Introduction

To Jiangxi College of Foreign Studies

    Jiangxi College of Foreign Studies---the only public professional college that endorsed by Jiangxi People’s Government. It specializes in international business and foreign languages. Its precursor was Jiangxi College of Foreign Trade, which was established in 1964. Through a training program named Jiangxi International Economic Relations & Trade Training Center under the supports of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), it has provided excellent education to students, many of whom have become leaders in foreign trade and foreign languages in southern region of China. The college also maintains close affiliations with other top universities such as Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade and University of International Business and Economics (Beijing). These affiliations are include joint sponsorship and effort in teaching and research programs.
    The college is located in Nanchang, Jiangxi province, P.R. China. It covers a total area of six hundred and ninety mu (which 50,000 square meters are occupied by college buildings and other facilities) and constituted by three campuses. The fixed asset has summed up to seventy million RMB yuan. It has state-of-the-art teaching and living facilities, such as Teaching Buildings, Comprehensive & Practical Buildings, Net Office Building, Student Apartments, Teacher Flats, Library and Electronic Teaching Building, Indoor and outdoor gymnastics ground. The college is also equipped with Technical Speech Hall, International Trade Simulated Lab E-commerce Simulated Lab and Computerized Accounting Simulated Lab in which students can learn and practice the whole procedures, Language Labs, Multimedia Classrooms, TV Performance and Broadcasting Studio, Computer labs, etc. The college now boasts twenty departments: International Trade, E-commerce, Business English, Business Japanese, Business German, Applied Computer Science, Accounting, Commodity Inspection in International Business, International Finance, International Marketing, Foreign Public Relations and Secretary, International Accounting, Hotel Service and Management, etc. Mainly, high-school graduates are recruited to three-year program for the college diploma. The college also has an active recruitment program for middle school graduates: they can directly obtain the diploma of college level by enrolling in five-year program, while can obtain the certificate in three-year program. The enrollment is large in recent years. As to September 2003, among total 4,200 students in the college, more than half of them were recruited in 2003. Currently, there are 260 employees, 166 of them are full-time teachers who have their Bachelor’s or Master’s degrees, and 46 are senior lecturers. More than 80 teachers have been sent abroad for scholarship. Each year, 6 foreign teachers from America, England, Australia, and Japan are employed to offer language courses. Besides, it has a wide network of international teaching and training organizations complemented by well-known professors, executives and experts at home and abroad who act as adjunct faculty to assure its teaching success.
    In the past forty years, many senior qualified persons are trained to provide broad-based technical assistance and consultation on foreign trade issues in the public and private sectors at local, state, national, and international levels. Some have become the indispensable employees in foreign trade line; some have grown to be the directors or managers of a factory or bosses of community-run enterprises; some have become experts or scholars of great attainments after continuing development abroad. Others have been government policymakers. Recently, the college has expended its employment market for their graduates by adding more human and material resources. Meanwhile, it manages to improve the graduates’ skills in performing a task, imbuing them with the idea --- “Starting and developing one’s career only after one obtains an occupation”. The employment rate of graduates is up to 100% this year.
The mission statements of Jiangxi College of Foreign Studies are “Being rigorous; Seeking knowledge developing; Achieving excellent”. The purpose of running school is “Recruit in; Educate well; Employ capably”. The general goal is “Educate the students; Assure the parents; Satisfy the society”. The vision statement is “Basing upon Jiangxi; Facing the whole nation; Targeting the entire globe”. Through deepening reform all-out, it insists on quality first and strengthens management, constantly “Make green, Beautify, Lighten, Clean-up” the environment of the campuses. Its educational level and quality have been widely affirmed by various bodies. The Education Ministry of P.R. China once conferred the title “ Key polytechnic school at state level” to the college. The People’s Government of Jiangxi province conferred the title “Provincial Civilized Unit “to the college two times (from the year 1998 to 1999 and from 2000 to 2001). In recent years the college has been keeping on getting titles, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation P.R. China and the Personal Ministry of P.R. China jointly conferred the title “Advanced Unit in the National Economy and Trade Organizations”; Jiangxi Provincial Educational Department conferred the titles “Advanced College in Teaching Management” and “Advanced College in Environment and Hygiene”; Jiangxi Economy and Trade Committee gave the title “Advanced Unit of Carders Training work”; The people’s Government of Nanchang city conferred the titles “ Garden Unit”, “Advanced Unit in School’s forestation”, “Advanced Unit of Comprehensive Administration” to the collage.
    After P.R. China joined WTO, many new opportunities had been available for Jiangxi College of Foreign Studies. Guided by the principles of “Building the campuses in international standard, Running the college in world perspective”, through enlarging the scale, speeding up the development, being strict about the management, improving the quality, striving for the best, Setting up the famous brand, the college will exert every effort to grasp the constructions of new campus, subjects and teaching staff to stride newer and higher goal.