The 2020 Annual Meeting of the Foreign Student Education Management and Research Committee of Jiangsu Higher Education Society was held in Changzhou from April 8 to 9. Wang Chengbin, deputy director of the Education Department of Jiangsu Province, and He Xingchu, director of the Foreign Cooperation and Exchange Division of the Education Department of Jiangsu Province, attended the annual meeting and delivered speeches. More than 280 representatives from nearly 100 colleges and universities which receive foreign students across the province attended the meeting.

After 2018 and 2019, our school was once again awarded the 2020 Advanced individual in Education and Management of Foreign Students in Jiangsu Province . The three teachers were awarded the honorary titles of Jiangsu Province Foreign Student Education Management Advanced Individual, Outstanding Foreign Student Counselor in Jiangsu Province and Advanced Individual in Management of Foreign Student in Jiangsu Province in the Fight against COVID-19 Epidemic.

The conference also announced the resolution on accepting our school as the governing unit of the society, which fully gave the recognition to our school’s work in the training and education of international students in recent years. Zhao Haixiao, vice dean of the Institute of overseas education, as the representative of the undergraduate group of universities, made a report on Thinking about the Education of Foreign Students in China in the Post-epidemic Era, shared and discussed with the front-line foreign student management staff the challenges and opportunities in the enrollment, teaching and daily management of foreign students in the post-epidemic era.

COVID-19 poses a severe challenge to the internationalization of education. Our school will continue to explore, seize opportunities in the crisis, and constantly innovate the concept of development. In addition, we will improve management models, provide better services, and create new breakthroughs in the changing situation.