Established in 2004, the Department of Chinese Language and Culture is an executive member of the secretarial professional committee of the Chinese Higher Education Association. The department offers four programs: Secretarial Training (Chinese and English), Primary Education (Chinese), Human Resource Management and Secretary (stenography) Program. With experienced and dedicated teachers from both our college and the enterprises, the department features a teaching team with strong research competence and appropriate educational background. There are 26 full-time teachers, among whom, two teachers have doctor’s degrees and seven others presently have master’s degrees. There are two professors and eleven associate professors. There are nine state-level examiners for National Mandarin Testing and two senior enterprise HR management administrators. An enterprise teaching team made up of fifteen industrial experts and twelve technical talents has provided a guarantee for vocational skill training of the students.

  The Department of Chinese Language and Culture enjoys its strengths in the following language courses like Teacher’s Spoken Language, The Art of Recitation, Speech and Eloquence and Chinese Oral Communication. The department has rich experience in the training of Mandarin Proficiency Test with more than 10,000 people trained and tested. The department features increasing strengths in offering vocational skill training courses orientated. It has provided several local enterprises and institutions with a series of training courses concerning social etiquette, oral communication, marketing skills, official document writing, and file management. The department develops well in the fields of the theory of literature and art, the ancient Chinese literature and contemporary literature with fruitful research accomplishments. A number of course books such as Chinese (for Higher Education), Secretarial Communication and Negotiation, Secretarial Communication and Etiquette, the Fundamental Theory and Techniques of Secretarial Writing, A Guide to Mandarin Proficiency Test have been published and put into use. Five courses have been identified as “Elite Course” of our college. Secretarial Practice and Oral Chinese for Teachers have been identified as Key Courses of our college.

  The Department of Chinese Language and Culture has accomplished a lot in talent cultivation. The talent cultivation of Secretarial Training (Chinese and English) specialty features “Multi-level training, bilingual communication, and sound-management of business affairs”. Primary Education (Chinese) specialty enjoys the feature of talent cultivation mode of “Refined teaching skill in micro-classroom”, “Flexible management of Chinese-learning classroom”. Since the establishment of the department, the general employment rate has all reached 100% for three consecutive years.

  The specialty-orientated employment rate of Secretary Program (Chinese and English) has reached 95.7%. Wen Xin, a student of Secretary (Chinese and English) Program won the Champion in the Finals of the fourth National Vocational Practical Oral English Competition in November of 2007, which was the best accomplishment among all the competitors from Guangdong province for years. In 2009 and 2011, two students named Wen Huiling and Lin Lin have been awarded the second prize in Guangdong semi-Finals of the sixth and seventh National Vocational Practical Oral English Competition respectively. A student named Wen Huiling even won the first prize of public English group (highest award) in the final of first National College English Writing Competition. A student named Zeng Ziqin from the Primary Education (Chinese) Program has won the first prize in “Southern Guangdong Cup” college speech contest of the series of educational activities based on the theme of “determined, self-cultivated, learned, patriotic” held by Provincial Department of Education. A student named Zheng Yixuan from the grade 2008 won “Best Talent Award” in the second National Secretarial Vocational Skills Competition. Students from the department have got one first prize, three third prizes and two excellent prizes in the first college official document writing contest held by Guangdong Provincial Writing Association.

  The department endeavors to aim at the demand of the society based upon the college development plan and social economic needs. The startup of two new programs will surely speed up the development of the Department of Chinese Language and Culture. With the support and assistance both from the college leadership and all sectors of the society, the department will spare no efforts to acquire new accomplishments with innovative and realistic spirit.