Source: College of Chinese Language and Culture
Author: Pan Mengting (text), Xie Yuantai and Huang Jiayuan (picture)

The signing ceremony for the third renewal of the Overseas Chinese Research Center was held at the College of Chinese Language and Culture on April 13. This research center was established by JNU and the Ministry of Education’s Department of Language Information Management. Tian Lixin, director of the ministry’s Department of Language Application and Administration and Department of Language Information Management, and JNU Party Secretary Lin Rupeng signed the renewal agreement.
 

(Signing the renewal agreement)

Tian affirmed the Overseas Chinese Research Center’s achievements in overseas Chinese life, Chinese ontology and Chinese language education. At the same time, she outlined the center’s future development direction according to the opinions of the evaluation experts. She said she hoped the center would continue to provide scientific research support and decision-making consultation for national language undertakings with overseas Chinese research as its core; further improve its development mechanism and enrich its research power to become a think-tank type of research institution; and further integrate the functions of its overseas Chinese platform to make more impressive achievements.
Lin said the Overseas Chinese Research Center had made many breakthroughs over the last five years, such as completing the construction of 20 sub-databases of the Global Chinese Resource Database and adding three new projects funded by the National Social Science Fund. He added that JNU would continue to support the center’s development, making it an intellectual engine for research on the inheritance and transmission of Chinese language and culture, and contributing more to the development of Chinese language and writing.
In attendance were Wang Qi, director of the Planning Coordination Office of the Department of Language Information Management; Pan Qiliang, director of JNU’s Social Science Research Department; Shi Xuehao, secretary of the Party Committee of JNU’s College of Chinese Language and Culture; all members of the Overseas Chinese Language Research Center, and a number of domestic experts and scholars. The renewal ceremony was hosted by Shao Yi, dean of the College of Chinese Language and Culture.
The center was established in April 2005 by the Department of Language Information Management and JNU. It is in the College of Chinese Language and Culture, as are the National Base for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language and the Base for Chinese Language Education. The College of Chinese Language and Culture is in charge of its construction. It has launched the first overseas Chinese research website, Global Chinese Network (https://huayu.jnu.edu.cn/) and has been working with the Ministry of Education for many years to compile The Language Situation in China (Green Book).