Beijing Language and Culture University

Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU) is the only international university in China with its main task set at teaching the Chinese language and culture to foreign students. Meanwhile it also undertakes the tasks of offering degree education to both Chinese and international students in the fields of foreign languages, liberal arts, computer science, finance and accounting, of training teachers specialized in teaching Chinese as a foreign language, and of providing intensive training of foreign languages to teachers preparing to go abroad.

BLCU was established in 1962. In the past 50 years since its establishment BLCU has educated more than 130,000 international students of more than 170 countries or regions who know Chinese language and culture very well. And about ten thousand international students of different countries, colors, or languages come to join the 6,000 Chinese students on campus every year. The international students on BLCU campus every year represent a proportion of one twelfth of the total of China and one sixth of Beijing.

It comprises 13 education departments. Of all the disciplines BLCU offers, one is a national key discipline and nine are Beijing municipal key disciplines. The Center for Studies of Chinese as a Second Language (CSCSL) in BLCU is one of the key research bases of humanities and social sciences that are presided directly by the Ministry of Education. Other research centers include International Cultures Research Center, the Center for Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK), Language Research Institution, Institute for Comparative Literature Research, and Institute for Applied Linguistics Research,etc. which are academically highly influential both internationally and domestically. BLCU sponsors and directs three national Chinese core periodicals which are well known in the academic circle, namely YUYAN JIAOXUE YU YANJIU, SHIJIE HANYU JIAOXUE, and ZHONGGUO WENHUA YANJIU.

BLCU is the biggest, the most experienced and the best resourced Chinese university in the education of Chinese language and in the international promotion of Chinese culture. Now BLCU has a unique, well-structured, and advantageous disciplines system, covering short-term Chinese language study, intensive Chinese training, on-line education, undergraduate education and graduate education, etc. And its education quality enjoys high reputation domestically and internationally.

As an internationally oriented university, BLCU is in cooperative or friendly relationship with more than 280 universities or educational organizations from more than 50 countries. And as many as 16 Confucius Institutes all over the world are directed by BLCU.