(Reported by Liu Shuyu, Photo by Wei Lin, XRTU Journal)

On the morning of July 9, 2020, XRTU’s Teaching Affairs Department held a meeting to discuss the platform development and resources utilization of Hantang Culture Online Academy of Xi’an. The meeting was presided over by Song Feng, head of the Section of Language and Law. All members of the Teaching Affairs Department attended the meeting.

In the meeting

Report by Song Feng

Song Feng reported the development of online learning and current situation of Hantang Culture Online Academy of Xi’an. She introduced the general situation, online resources, and brand courses of the Hantang Culture Online Chinese Learning Platform, and described the development of the Hantang Culture Online Academy of Xi’an since its establishment in 2017. Xi’an and Guanzhong Plain excel in the rich historical and cultural resources. Based on the resources and under the Belt & Road initiative, Hantang Culture Online Academy of Xi’an has built the first TCFL online teaching platform in northwestern China -- Hantang Culture Online Chinese Learning Platform – to provide high-quality online lectures and carefully designed offline activities,  and establish a new teaching mode of “Internet + International Chinese Language Education”. Hantang Culture Online Academy of Xi’an sticks to platform and resources development, trying its best to promote online and offline teaching progress. In the meeting, Song Feng introduced such courses as Easy HSK, General Introduction to China, and Traditional Chinese Landscape Paintings.

Fu Qiuhui introduced the progress of International Education of Chinese Language, a newly established major by the Open University of China, and its first recruitment and teaching in Guangzhou Radio & TV University. Zhai Xinyu gave a detailed report about the General Introduction to China, including its characteristics, video resources, administration of online learning, and feedbacks.   

Speech by Zhu Tong

Zhu Tong, head of Finance and Economics Section, Teaching Affairs Department, said in her speech that in the past few years, Hantang Culture Online Academy of Xi’an has established a Chinese language and culture learning platform based on modern teaching and administrative methods, outstanding teaching team, and high-quality teaching resources. She expressed that she hopes all staff of the Academy will continue to promote the Hantang Culture Online Chinese Learning Platform, making it be used and shared by more Chinese language and culture lovers, and letting them know more about Xi’an and China through language learning.

In the meeting

All attendees expressed that they will take the responsibility of publicity, letting more people know the platform, encourage their international friends in and out of China to register. They will also build a team to join in online and offline courses management, give advices, and assist the internationalization of XRTU. Hopefully, all these work will make contributions to build Xi’an in the development to be a national core city and an international metropolis.