Chapter 30 Foreign Students Exchange Dialogue
Director Xu Gang never imagined that one day he would be blocked in his office by students. Such a bad thing has never happened in the Institute of Cultural Research since its establishment.
"Okay, okay, be quiet, everyone, speak one by one."
The students expressed their demands in a flurry, making Xu Gang's office noisy. He could only press his hands down and shout loudly.
After a long while, everyone calmed down and elected Jiang Zilong to present everyone's demands.
But when he heard everyone's demands, he felt both amused and helpless.
When students actively requested to extend their study time, it would only be possible in the early 1980s after the buzz.
"Okay, I understand, and I also appreciate everyone's thirst for knowledge. Let's discuss this with several leaders in our institute later.
You have to understand that this matter is not something that we can decide on our own. We will try to come up with a result as soon as possible and then report it to the higher-ups.”
Xu Gang was not angry because of the students' reckless blocking of the door. The institute was extremely fond of the first batch of students after the restoration of the Institute of Literature.
He understands better why everyone does this, which is also for the purpose of learning better.
The students left Xu Gang’s office after he expressed his stance. They came to raise their demands, not to cause trouble.
The institute acted quickly and did not disappoint the students.
Director Xu Gang first held a meeting to reach a consensus with his colleagues in the institute, and then reported the matter to the directly affiliated leadership department - the Cultural Association.
After a meeting and discussion, the shoe-making group D agreed to the trainees' opinion of extending the training time.
At the same time, Director Xu Gang also took this opportunity to propose continuing to run a minority literature creation class and an editing and commentary class.
After another discussion, the two school applications proposed by Xu Gang were also approved, which later became the sixth and seventh sessions of the Institute of Literature and Art.
So, the old ones are the wisest. The students of the fifth term fought for benefits for themselves, but they didn't know that the leaders of the institute not only met their needs, but also achieved their own goals.
Kill two birds with one stone.
The students in the institute certainly didn't know what had happened at the Group D meeting of the Cultural Association. When they learned from the leaders of the institute that the original three-month training period of the short-term training course had been extended to six months, everyone was delighted.
This not only proves that their unity is effective, but also proves that the Cultural Association and the Institute of Literature value everyone, and that they can continue to study in such a rare environment as the Institute of Literature.
The next day was Saturday, and the institute arranged for the students to have an exchange and dialogue session with foreign students this weekend.
Early in the morning, after breakfast, the students boarded the No. 18 bus, led by several teachers.
The place we are going to this time is Yenching University.
Yenching University is one of the top universities in China, and is also a major institution of higher learning for international students.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the number of foreign students at Yenching University was relatively small. These students mainly studied Chinese language and history, and most of them came from socialist countries.
In the 1960s, the international and domestic situation changed suddenly, and China's acceptance of foreign students was interrupted. In the following years, Yenching University's enrollment of foreign students in China was also temporarily suspended.
After 1972, as my country's diplomatic environment eased, the recruitment of international students was restarted, the scale gradually expanded, and the types and countries of students continued to expand.
In the 1980s, Yenching University had nearly 200 international students, not only from socialist countries, but also from developed countries during the diplomatic honeymoon period, such as the United States, Japan, Federal Germany, and France.
The exchange meeting was held in a tiered classroom at Yenching University. The venue was decorated very simply, similar to most activities of that era. The theme of today's event was written on the blackboard, with a banner hanging above it, and tea, fruits and vegetables were placed on the table.
There are more than ten foreigners who came to exchange ideas today. As soon as the students from the Institute of Cultural Research entered the classroom, they began to look for foreigners with blond hair and blue eyes in their impression. Unfortunately, there was no one with such features in this group of people. There was only one American girl who met the standard of blond hair, but her eyes were brown.
Nearly half of the dozen or so people are from East Asian countries, and the remaining half are from Western Europe, Eastern Europe, the United States and other countries.
Many people in the class met foreigners for the first time, and they were whispering excitedly in private.
In order to facilitate communication among everyone, the seats in the venue were interspersed, with students and international students mixed together. Yenching University also specially provided two English translators.
Sitting next to Lin Weimin was a cute girl from Nihong named Xiaohei Yoko.
Xiao Hei Yangzi spoke Chinese haltingly, and her English was slightly better than her Chinese. While the teachers at Yenching University and the Institute of Literature were still going through the process on the podium, Lin Weimin had already figured out Xiao Hei Yangzi's identity.
She is 24 years old and studied at Yokohama City University before studying in China.
In September 1972, Kakuei Tanaka, the Prime Minister of the Japanese Cabinet, visited China and the two governments issued a joint statement to normalize diplomatic relations. In 1979, the two countries officially decided to send students to each other. In that year, 140 Chinese students were sent to Japan by the government. The number increased rapidly every year thereafter, reaching 20,000 in 1988.
At that time, there were far fewer students sent to China by the government. For example, in the group headed by Yoko and her classmates, there were only 40 people.
There are probably several reasons why these international students choose to come to China.
First, they are a political family. Now that the diplomatic relations between the two countries have been normalized, studying in China is a necessary investment.
Second, I am optimistic about China’s future development and hope to turn my study abroad experience into future wealth.
The third is a speculator like Yoko Kohei. She came from a poor family and had to take out loans to go to college.
She originally wanted to find a good job after graduating from university and quickly pay off the loan. Yoko Xiaohei is a girl with goals. Her goals are to join well-known domestic companies, such as Panasonic, Sony, Mitsui, etc.
But Yoko Kuro sadly discovered that it was not easy to find a satisfactory job with her degree from Yokohama City University. She could not compete with her competitors who graduated from famous universities such as Kyoto University and Tokyo University.
Just when she was worried, Xiao Hei Yoko saw the information that the government was recruiting government-sponsored students, and the country they were sent to was China.
After a brief hesitation, she decided to seize this opportunity, for no other reason than that the announcement mentioned that students who returned from government-sponsored overseas study could have priority in working for the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
These two departments are equivalent to the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in China.
With a degree from Yokohama City University, you can get a job in a ministry in just two years of studying abroad, which is a good deal no matter how you look at it.
(End of this chapter)
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