Li Bin, vice-president and editor-in-chief of the Beijing Branch of Xinhua News Agency, headed a team to visit Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) on July 8.

A team of Xinhua News Agency Beijing Branch visits BFSU on July 8. [Photo/bfsu.edu.cn]

Yang Dan, deputy Party secretary of the CPC BFSU committee and president of the university, and Su Dapeng, deputy Party secretary of the CPC BFSU committee, held in-depth talks with Li over the cultivation of international communication talents, the joint building of think tanks and participation in academic research.

Yang Dan, deputy Party secretary of the CPC BFSU committee and president of the university, speaks at a symposium with the team of Xinhua News Agency Beijing Branch on July 8. [Photo/bfsu.edu.cn]

Yang expressed thanks to the branch for its long-term support.

He noted that both BFSU and Xinhua News Agency were born in Yan'an, the cradle of the Chinese revolution in Northwest China's Shaanxi province, and have been tasked with great missions in making Chinese stories heard by the global audience. The university is pressing ahead with its global development strategy, known as BFSU CREATE (Global Connection, Reputation, Educators, Academic Research, Talents and Eco-campus), focusing on global languages, and aspiring to become a world-class language service provider, Chinese story narrator and global governance enabler.

Yang emphasized that Xinhua is an important partner of BFSU and the two sides have made fruitful achievements in international communication talent training and students' internship and employment promotion.

He said he hopes that both sides will make full use of mutual advantages, deepen exchanges, explore new forms of cooperation in the spread of Chinese stories, and contribute more efforts to China’s economic development and opening-up.

Li Bin, vice-president and editor-in-chief of Xinhua News Agency Beijing Branch, speaks at the symposium on July 8. [Photo/bfsu.edu.cn]

Li gave an introduction to the history and development of Xinhua News Agency Beijing Branch. He said the branch has been working hard to strengthen ties with social institutions, especially universities.

Li spoke highly of BFSU’s achievements in international communication talent nurturing and providing social services, and called on pragmatic collaboration and long-term cooperation between both sides.

During the discussion session, Kong Xiangxin, deputy editor-in-chief of Xinhua News Agency Beijing Branch, introduced typical media cooperation cases among Xinhua and regional institutions, while heads of functional departments and schools at BFSU talked about their progress in enrollment and employment, academic studies, foreign publicity, country and region-specific research, the cultivation of international communication talents, and the development of think tanks.

Attendees of the symposium pose for a group photo. [Photo/bfsu.edu.cn]

Ahead of the symposium, Li and the team also toured the university history museum and its world language museum on campus, learning more about BFSU’s history and development.