This year is the 100th anniversary of the birthday of the famous English educator, linguist, and language philosopher in my country. On the morning of November 15th, as one of the activities to commemorate Mr. Xu Guo's centennial birthday, our school held the "Mr. Xu Guozhang's Centennial Birthday" commemorative conference in the International Conference Hall of the Ayrangou to explain Mr.'s learning and memorizing Mr.'s style.

Mr. Xu Guozhang is a famous English educator in my country, an outstanding linguist, and a linguist philosopher. He studied Chinese and Western, Bogu Tongjin, and is the pioneer of Chinese contemporary foreign language education. In October 1949, Mr. Xu Guozhang graduated from Oxford University in the United Kingdom and resolutely chose to return to China to teach his life at Beijing Foreign Studies University. He devoted his lifelong energy to the country's education, especially in foreign language education and research, and made an indelible contribution to the progress of national education and academic undertakings. The textbook edited by him, "English", has been popular in the Chinese English teaching community for decades. It is a monument for foreign language education in New China.

In his speech, the party secretary of the party committee pointed out that Mr. Xu Guozhang's academic and academic thoughts have an important enlightenment. Different knowledge, different methods, and different vision of foreign language colleges complement each other. This difference constitutes a unique spiritual temperament, and the carrier of this temperament is a teacher. Mr. Xu Guozhang explained the realm of a good teacher in his life: a good teacher must have both sense of responsibility, knowledge, ability, realm, and thought; not only teach language, but also teach ideas, culture culture, culture, culture, culture, culture, culture, culture Teach people. Today, when Mr. Xu's birthday is a century, foreign language colleges and foreign language educators should stand at the forefront of internationalization, assume historical responsibilities, promote foreign language education to adapt to the pace of China from a big country to a strong country, and serve as the vital army to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Leaders and builders remember Mr. Xu with practical actions.

President Peng Long said that the school organized a series of activities to "Commemorate Mr. Xu Guo's Centennial Birthday" aimed to motivate us to inherit the cause of Mr. Xu in the field of language research and foreign language education, carry forward Mr. Xu's spirit of hard work, rigorous, realistic innovation, and encourage more. Multi -outstanding scholars are engaged in national language education. At present, the world interconnection is more closely. At the same time, the state's "Belt and Road" initiative and the proposal to promote the construction plan of world -class universities and first -class disciplines have provided historical opportunities for the development of universities characterized by foreign languages. Beiwai will be with the colleges and universities of brothers to strengthen collaborative innovation, and to explore the laws of language education research with a more open attitude and a more open -minded vision and a new model of international talent training and cooperation. To promote foreign language education, promote humanities from various countries Communication and prospering world civilization have made greater contributions.

At the commemorative conference, Li Yuming, Secretary of the Party Committee of Beijing Language University, Nicholas Nechayev, the first vice president of Moscow National Language University, former president of Shanghai Foreign Studies University, former Party Secretary Dai Weidong, former president of Beijing Foreign Studies University, former Party Secretary Chen Naifang , Tian Yun, vice chairman of Haining CPPCC, Xu Chengyu, relatives (Sun) of Mr. Xu Guozhang, Huang Chang, member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Li Peiyi Wang Kefei, a professor of students and a professor at the University of Foreign Languages ​​from Beijing, has remembered Mr. Xu Guozhang's academic style, personality, and simple life. He keeps in memory of Mr. Xu Guozhang's outstanding contribution to the national education cause, expressing his respect for Mr. Xu Guozhang. The conference was chaired by Sun Youzhong, Vice President.

On the same day, our school also held a series of commemorative activities such as the establishment of the Xu Guozhang Foreign Language Research Award, the establishment of the establishment ceremony of the Xu Guozhang Language Higher Research Institute, the academic forum of the academic forum of Xu Guozhang academic thought and the development of foreign language education. The school leaders Han Zhen, Peng Long, Zhao Yan, Jiang Xutan, Jia Dazhong, Jia Wenjian, Sun Youzhong, the old leader and professor representative of our school, relatives of Mr. Xu Guozhang, representatives of his hometown, principals from 20 foreign language universities at home and abroad, more than 60 foreign language from foreign languages ​​in more than 60 universities More than 300 experts and scholars in the department 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 the new path of reform and development of foreign language universities. In addition, in order to commemorate Mr. Xu Guozhang's century, Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press will re -organize and compile more of more than 130 writings (including papers, prose, translation, annotations, encyclopedia entries, speeches, preface, etc.), respectively. "Language Scholarship", "Foreign Language Education Volume" and "Literature and Culture Volume" were published.

(Reporter Zhang Wenchao)