The Annual Working Conference of Educational Internationalization of Hangzhou Education System was held at Hangzhou Shanghai World Foreign Language Primary School on May 11th. There are near 150 people attending the conference, including the leaders and department heads of Bureau of Education from different districts and counties (or prefecture-level cities), heads of feeder schools (or institutions), and major heads of the first batch of 30 demonstration schools of Hangzhou educational internationalization and 40 schools which have special branded projects of Hangzhou international understanding education. ZHENG Limin, Committee Member of Educational Committee of Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee and Deputy Director of Hangzhou Municipal Bureau of Education, GAO Ning, Committee Member of Educational Working Committee of Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee, and SHU Peidong, Section Chief of Foreign Affairs Office of Department of Education of Zhejiang Province attended the conference and gave a speech. Hangzhou Shanghai World Foreign Language Primary School, Hangzhou Zhongce Vocational School and Tonglu Bureau of Education shared their achievements and exchanged their experiences at the conference.

    Participants seriously studied the spirit of Some Opinions about How to Implement the Opening up Work of Education in New Period, which was issued by General Office of the CPC Central Committee and General Office of the State Council and published by Xinhua News Agency, reviewed the achievements of Hangzhou educational internationalization in 2015, and made deployment on the key points of educational internationalization in 2016. The conference emphasized on Four Projects and Six Awareness, delivered four requirements to all schools in different places – friendly partnership development and base construction, foreign teacher employment, construction of internationalized demonstration schools and special branded projects of international understanding education, as well as construction of Sino-foreign cooperative in running schools and schools for children of foreign personnel, and raised political awareness, boundary awareness, legal awareness, curriculum awareness, file awareness and advertisement awareness, so as to enhance the educational internationalization work of Hangzhou to a new level.

    In the talk, Deputy Director ZHENG Limin praised the achievements Hangzhou has made during the process of educational internationalization in 2015 in three aspects of international education communication and cooperation – further enlargement of the scale, further enrichment of the connotation and further promotion of the level. Meanwhile, she also pointed out some existing problems such as unbalanced development, insufficient depth and width of communication as well as monotonous contents, and raised requirements for the following work in two aspects:

    First, focus on opening up. Specifically, three requirements should be met. Firstly, establish the awareness of serving the overall situation, and positively build platforms for policy consultation, information exchange, resource share and mechanism construction. Secondly, base on reality and enhance deepened development of educational internationalization from different levels of the Bureau of Education and schools. Thirdly, grasp the chance of G20 to strengthen publicity and create good atmosphere so as to promote the internationalized level of education

    Second, focus on regulation. Specifically, all schools in different places are required to “Stick to politics, stick to discipline, and stick to guarantee”, so as to make sure the orderly enhancement and healthy development of educational internationalization work.

    SHU Peidong, Section Chief of Foreign Affairs Office of Department of Education of Zhejiang Province, introduced the issuing background of Some Opinions about How to Implement the Opening up Work of Education in New Period issued by General Office of the CPC Central Committee and General Office of the State Council, and made corresponding explanation to the contents of the file combining the reality of the educational internationalization condition of Hangzhou and Zhejiang.

    Participants were organized to visit Hangzhou Shanghai World Foreign Language Primary School. Its environment integrating the features of the East and the West, colorful curriculum activities, hidden but influential moral education details and students’ lively and smart behaviors all gave them deep impression.

    There are extremely rich materials provided at this conference for exchange and study. Except for picture book Overview of the Education of Hangzhou, DVD Hangzhou: Education Makes the City Better and four compiled materials including policy files, annual work, application materials of demonstration schools as well as exchanging and visiting reports offered by Hangzhou Municipal Bureau of Education, there were also American Teachers Are Coming –Record of Class Research and Study of Key Math Teachers from Indiana of Bureau of Education of Gongshu District, Backpacker English and Speak English and Travel around Hangzhou of the Community College of Shangcheng District, Knowledge about G20 for Elementary School Students of Hangzhou Shidai Primary School, Yearbook of Hangzhou Greentown Yuhua School, Greet G20 Summit and Be a Polite Hangzhou Citizen of Hangzhou Renmin Vocational School as well as Walk into Hangzhou and Learn Chinese – Practical Teaching Materials for Confucius Class of Hangzhou No.14 Middle School.