BEIJING, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- As routine teaching severely affected by the novel coronavirus outbreak globally, Zhejiang Gongshang University in east China has recently carried out online-and-offline blended teaching mode for international students.
Located in east China's Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Gongshang University is one of the earliest commercial universities established in China. Now, it is becoming the choice of more and more overseas students to study in China with its abundant course resources, adequate scholarships, and beautiful campus environment.
In 2020, Zhejiang Gongshang University enrolled 143 Asian students, accounting for 58.1 percent of its international freshmen. The university cooperated with Malaysia for the first time and successfully cultivated many preparatory students in 2020.
In the future, the university will continue the preparatory and degree training model, cultivating and sending more talents to the global society.
International students can not only learn knowledge here, but also have opportunities to get internship offers from giant companies such as Alibaba, thanks to the advantages of Hangzhou, the capital of e-commerce, said CHARLIE, an Indonesian student majored in E-commerce.
"It really surprised me that I won the Zhejiang Provincial Government Scholarship for my performance," said JIRUN, astudent from Thailand, "it's an honor."
The university has 9 disciplines including Economics, Management, Law, Literature, Science, Engineering, History, Philosophy, and Art. In 2020, it ranks 77th in China, the first in Zhejiang province and the 8th in China's finance and economics universities in terms of the proportion of advantage discipline in all disciplines of a university, according to Shanghai Ranking Consultancy.
According to the results of the fourth round of subject evaluation by China Academic Degrees & Graduate Education Development Center in 2018, the university's Statistics major entered the category A. In addition, its Food major entered the top 2‰ according to the Essential Science Indicators (ESI), and the Engineering entered the top 1%.
The university is also committed to cooperative education with foreign colleges and research institutions. China (Hangzhou) Cross-Border E-Commerce College, Zhejiang Gongshang University Sharjah Silk Road College and many other colleges were established in recent years.
In cooperation with the Mexican government, a total of 22 students under school-government-enterprise cooperation project went to the university to study for a master's degree in 2020.
In 2021, Zhejiang Gongshang University will launch Chinese Language and Culture Program, E-commerce and other courses, providing excellent international students more opportunities to win Chinese Government Scholarship, International Chinese Language Teachers (Confucius Institute) Scholarship, and Zhejiang Provincial Government Scholarship.
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(Edited by Gao Jingyan with Xinhua Silk Road, gaojingyan@xinhua.org)