The National Language Promotion Base (Beijing Language and University) (hereinafter referred to as the BLU Language Promotion Base) was established in January 2020. Its foundation dates back to the 1990s, with Mandarin instruction for students from Hong Kong and Macao, as well as Mandarin training programs in ethnic regions. The BLU Language Promotion Base focuses on inheritance and promotion, aiming to integrate the university’s high-quality resources and carry out specialized language promotion efforts at the institutional level. It strives to build a national universal language promotion center and a Chinese culture dissemination hub, primarily targeting international students, Hong Kong and Macao regions, and ethnic areas, while also serving broader societal needs in teaching, research, and testing.
The Mandarin Promotion Base of BLCU leverages the university's disciplinary strengths to build deep expertise in applied language research, as well as Mandarin promotion training, assessment, and monitoring in ethnic regions. It boasts a teaching-and-research-oriented faculty team and certified examiners, and has developed a comprehensive and diverse teaching model and curriculum system. The base has produced teaching resources such as textbooks and MOOCs, accumulating extensive experience and achievements in language training and cultural preservation. In recent years, it has expanded pathways for Mandarin promotion in ethnic regions and pursued more cross-base and cross-regional collaborations. It has deepened efforts in training farmers and herders as teachers in areas like Aksu and Hotan in Xinjiang, establishing an integrated, end-to-end mechanism for training, assessing, applying, and monitoring the national common language proficiency among young and middle-aged laborers in ethnic regions. This approach drives overall improvements in the quality and effectiveness of Mandarin promotion by making breakthroughs in key areas.
Since its establishment, the BLCU Mandarin Promotion Base has organized a series of activities for the "Mandarin Promotion Week" every year, hosted preliminary rounds of the National Recitation, Writing, and Speaking Competition, and held the finals of the 2025 National Poetry Conference Beijing Division. It has completed the "Tong Yu Tong Yin" preschool education teacher training project commissioned by the National Language Commission, training 600 kindergarten teachers. Additionally, it has provided training for 502 primary and secondary school teachers from Du'an and Dahua counties in Guangxi, as well as 55 teachers from night schools for young adult farmers and herdsmen in Hotan, Xinjiang. The base has also accomplished the National Language Commission’s key project, "Mandarin Promotion and Language Cultural Exchange Activities in Hong Kong and Macao," and completed the entrusted/joint research project for the Beijing Language Commission titled "Research on Enhancing the Social Service Capacity of Language and Writing."
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