On September 6, the school held a "public diplomatic discipline development and national think tank construction and development meeting." Zhao Qizheng, former director of the State Council News Office and Honorary Director of the Public Diplomacy Research Center of our school, Peng Long, principal, and vice president Yan Guohua, Jia Wenjian, and Sun Youzhong attended the meeting. The leaders, professors, and teachers and students of each department department attended the meeting.

Zhao Qizheng focuses on the two themes of "calling public diplomacy and calligraphy of public diplomacy and public diplomacy", and proposed that Beiwai should take the task of expressing China to the world. It is necessary to clarify its own development positioning and have the self -confidence of "who is what I am". He pointed out that language is the biggest advantage of northwai, and language is also the bottleneck to break through. Under the new situation, the task of North and Foreign is not only the language itself, but to give full play to the advantages of the language, and assume historical mission in public diplomacy, strategic communication, cross -cultural exchanges, national rhetoric and national discourse research, foreign national conditions research. Zhao Qizheng said that the general diplomatic education courses of public diplomacy should be provided in the school to allow each student to be trained by cross -cultural exchanges; establish a public diplomacy evaluation system; strengthen China's national education and foreign national conditions research; strengthen discipline integration; Serve "going global" for Chinese companies and so on.

Peng Long thanked Zhao Qizheng for his consistent support for Beiwai. He said that Beiwai urgently solved the problem of "who am I" in the new situation. To enhance the sense of existence and influence in the international and domestic, not only to achieve full language coverage, but also to promote the construction and the construction of multidisciplinary disciplines on the basis of language. Fusion, fully implement new mission; Beiwai must be more "confident", the "2011 plan" must be used to make the whole school, so that Chinese culture will "go out" more profoundly. Peng Long urged all the departments of the school to do a good job of website promotion, improve English materials, first publicize the publicity of Beiwai, and then make good publicity of Chinese culture.

The meeting was chaired by Sun Youzhong. He introduced the development of public diplomacy in the school, and proposed to promote the training of international talents from the perspective of public diplomacy, promote the development of world -class disciplines, promote the construction of new think tanks, improve school -enterprise cooperation and social service level. Participants conducted warm exchanges and discussions.

(Yang Wenqian, Public Diplomacy Research Center)