On the morning of June 28, the opening ceremony of the "2015 Beijing University Adult Higher Education Education English" was held in the third ladder classroom of Yifu Building in our school. Sun Youzhong, deputy principal of our school, Liu Chengzheng, director of the Gao Education Department of the Beijing Municipal Education Commission, and Professor Xie Yibin, president of the Adult Education Association of the Chinese Adult Education Association, attended the opening ceremony and delivered speeches. The opening ceremony was chaired by Gao Xiaodong, dean of the School of Internet and Continuing Education.

Sun Youzhong welcomed the arrival of leaders, judges, experts, contestants and instructor, and thanked the Municipal Education Commission, the leaders of the competition organizing committee at all levels, and the participating colleges for their support and trust in Beiwai. He said that as a leading university in foreign language education, Beiwai will do his best to do logistical support for the competition.

Liu Chengyi pointed out that more than 300 players from 102 teams of 53 colleges and universities participated in this competition. The competition is a government -led construction platform, which aims to strengthen the development and exchanges of adult language education and teaching activities of colleges and universities, and further promote the model innovation and talent training of English teaching of adult colleges and universities in Beijing.

Guo Shimeng, an undergraduate of the School of Network and Continuing Education in the School of Online and Continuing Education, and the leader of the referee of the competition, Professor Huang Zhenhua, former Vice President of the University of Foreign Economic and Trade, spoke on behalf of the contestants and the referee.

This spoken competition is sponsored by the Chinese Adult Education Association's Adult Foreign Language Higher Education Professional Committee, which aims to promote the continuing education innovation of academic universities across the country, promote the reform of foreign language teaching, test the results of adult foreign language teaching, further stimulate students' foreign language learning interests and teachers' teaching enthusiasm, improve the enthusiasm of students, improve the enthusiasm of teachers' teaching, and improve The quality of foreign language education and teaching and the ability to apply foreign language.

(Liu Wenyan, School of Network and Continuing Education)