This year is the 100th anniversary of the birthday of the famous English educator, linguist, and language philosopher in my country. As one of the commemorative series of activities, our school has established the Xu Guozhang Foreign Language Research Award to recognize experts and scholars who have made outstanding contributions in domestic language research and foreign language education research, promote the construction of foreign language and literature disciplines in my country, and promote the prosperity of philosophy and social sciences. develop.

On the morning of November 15th, the first Xu Guozhang Foreign Language Research Awards ceremony was held in our school. Professor Hu Zhuanglin, Peking University, Professor Hu Wenzhong, Beijing University of Foreign Languages, and Professor Gui Shichun, a University of Foreign Studies from Guangdong Foreign Languages ​​and Foreign Studies, won the first Xu Guozhang Foreign Language Research Award "Lifetime Achievement Award for Foreign Language Education", each with a prize of 200,000 yuan. The party committee secretary Han Zhen and the principal Peng Long awarded medals and honorary certificates to the winners.

Hu Zhuanglin, Hu Wenzhong, and Vice President of the University of Foreign Studies Liu Jiangda (representing Gui Shichun) have published award -winning speech, expressing the respect for Mr. Xu Guozhang to dedicate herself to the New China foreign language education. The role of learning for us has demonstrated the noble character of a Communist. It is believed that the establishment of the Language Award named after Mr. Xu Guozhang will inspire the talents of a generation of foreign language teaching and research to continue to make new foreign language education. contribute.

Vice President Sun Youzhong presided over the awards ceremony. According to reports, the Xu Guozhang Foreign Language Research Award is a scientific research award for national foreign language research and foreign language education research scholars. Anyone in public language research, academic monographs and papers in foreign language research, foreign language education research can participate. The award is selected every two years, one of the first prizes and 3 second prizes, and the special contribution award (lifelong achievement award) is selected from time to time. In order to ensure the academic standards, there is a vacancy of the awards, and the publicity notice and award announcement are issued to the society through news and online media. Beiwai will cooperate with colleagues in the foreign language community to ensure the disclosure, fairness and authority of the awards. The Xu Guozhang Foreign Language Research Awards will become the highest academic honor of the foreign language community and make positive contributions to the Chinese and even world foreign language education.

On the same day, our school also held a series of commemorative activities such as Mr. Xu Guozhang's Centennial Birthday Commemorative Conference, the establishment of the establishment ceremony of the Xu Guozhang Language Higher Research Institute, Xu Guozhang's academic Forum and the Development of Foreign Language Education Development Academic Forum, and the Presidential Forum of Foreign Language University. The school leaders Han Zhen, Peng Long, Zhao Yan, Jiang Xutan, Jia Dezhong, Jia Wenjian, Sun Youzhong, the old leaders and professors of our school, the relatives, friends, and the representative of their hometown, the principal of the 20 foreign language universities at home and abroad, more than 60 institutions, more than 60 institutions, more than 60 institutions More than 300 experts and scholars from the University of Foreign Languages ​​participated in the series of commemorative activities, remembering Xu Lao, and witnessed the establishment of the Foreign Language Research Award and Language Higher Research Institute named "Xu Guozhang" to explore a new path of reform and development of foreign language universities.

(Reporter Zhang Wenchao)