“My study in China is wonderful and memorable, the professors are knowledgeable and friendly, they teach me how to think, and make me improved very soon on the majors I am learning, and I benefit a lot from them.” Said Suffian on her graduation , an international student from Sudan.
Marupe, an international student from Kazakhstan, said，“Xi’an is a old as well as a modern city in which there are lots of historical and cultural relics, here, you will understand and experience the ancient Chinese culture”
On the graduation symposium held at Xi’an Shiyou University, Suffian and Marupe’s words made the voices of students coming to study in Xi’an Shiyou University from all over the world heard.
Xi’an Shiyou University’s Party Committee secretary Wang Jianli introduced, that in the recent 10 years, Xi’an Shiyou University have cultivated over 2000 petroleum majored international students for countries in the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa. Education for international students in China is an important way to cultivate personage who understand China who are kind to China, as well as one of important measures for internationalization of higher education and improvement of China’s national soft power.
Due to petroleum enterprises’ international, especially the daily closing international cooperation between districts in Central Asia, China’s large petroleum enterprises’ business in Central Asia, Middle East and North Africa increased, so a massive petroleum majored talents are in great demand. As the result, that Xi’an Shiyou University as featuring university, it is very meaningful to have foothold in its featured majors and take advantages of the industry to start up innovation and practice of international student’s education mode
Qu Zhan, The president of Xi’an Shiyou University, said that Xi’an Shiyou University had three advantages in strengthening the education for international students: the first on is the discipline advantage of petroleum engineering majors, the second is advantage of culture deposit of the ancient Xi’an, and the last is the area advantage that Shaanxi is a province with rich oil & gas resource and energy and chemical industries. And as well as taking internationalization as the important way to enhance high-level universities construction, the university established cooperation with over 40 universities and institutions in USA, Korea, UK, German and so on, and jointly cultivated undergraduates and postgraduates with more than 10 foreign universities.
In the aspect of talents cultivation, the university established the international student education which concentrates on disciplines in petroleum engineering, oil and gas storage engineering and chemical engineering but also takes other disciplines into consideration, and locked regional development goal to spare no effort to cultivate high-level talents with cultural-cross background, cultural-cross communication abilities, international view, and international competition. and finally to make the university to be a featured and superior higher engineering international students education base
In order to cultivate high-level talents with strong practical operation ability, Xi’an Shiyou University emphasizes on overseas talents instruction, and insists on sending teachers to study abroad, and increased faculties for education for international students. In the aspect of curriculum structure, the university established Chinese culture education programs, programs that internationalization needs, pre-course programs, profession-oriented programs and professional practice programs. It integrates international advanced subject knowledge and theories system into course contents, and established curriculum system and teaching content covering Chinese culture programs, internationalization needed programs, practice in multinational enterprises, Chinese culture practice activities, foreign experts lectures and so on. The university pays great attention on combining professional teaching with Chinese language teaching, combining theoretical teaching with practical ability, and combining in-class teaching of humanistic quality education with out-class practice. And it works very well. The “innovation and practice of transferred universities of industries’ international students in featured major’s education mode” project directed and accomplished by Xi’an Shiyou University won 2013 Shaanxi province higher education teaching results special award.
In the past ten years, Xi’an University cultivated 2079 international students, ranking at the first among Shaanxi provincial engineering universities, and became the second Shaanxi provincial university being in the list of “the Universities receiving China Government Scholarship International Students” issued by Ministry of Education of PRC.