On the morning of January 12, the CULR convened the 2016 Conference on Foreign Affairs Work in the conference room on the fourth floor of the Beijing campus office building. Vice President Wu Wanxiong attended the meeting, together with heads of various schools and relevant functional departments, as well as staff from the Foreign Affairs Office.

Vice President Wu Wanxiong pointed out that the CULR and its party committee attached great importance to foreign affairs work and had increased funding for foreign affairs work, to further improve the level of external communication of teachers and students at the CULR. He stated that the university's foreign affairs work should be led by the academic departments and functional departments and be designed to serve the overall interests of the university and the needs for academic and research work. In response to the uneven development of foreign affairs exchanges for various schools as well as the problem of "more outbound and less inbound study visits", Vice President Wu proposed the overall plan for foreign affairs work in 2017 from the perspectives of policy and funding support, top-level design of exchange projects, balanced development of external exchanges for various schools, and exploration of diversified forms of exchange. He hopes that all schools and relevant functional departments can fully leverage their subjective initiative and resource advantages, actively explore more foreign affairs exchange projects suitable for their own conditions, and encourage and support teachers and students to participate in various forms of beneficial international exchange activities, to broaden their international perspectives, grasp cutting-edge trends in disciplines, and improve their international academic exchange and research capabilities.

The Deputy Director of the Foreign Affairs Office, Chang Shuang, summarized and reviewed the overall situation and new progress of the CULR's foreign exchange work in 2016, and described the 2017 foreign affairs work plan.

The attendees made speeches separately, expressing their support and concern for the overall foreign affairs exchange work of the university. They discussed practical issues such as teaching task arrangement and the use of foreign exchange funds in foreign exchange work, and put forward many constructive suggestions for the future foreign affairs work of the university.

(Foreign Affairs Office)