Two foreign students were awarded the honorary title of Excellent Foreign Students in China by the Chinese government

       Recently, the Ministry of Education announced the results of the 2020 Chinese Government Scholarship for Outstanding Foreign Students in China. Niyazbekova, Zhannur (Chinese name: Zhang Nuo), a Kazakh doctoral candidate majoring in Preventive Veterinary Medicine from the College of Veterinary Medicine, and Roy, Rana (Chinese name: Wang Yi), a Bangladeshi doctoral candidate majoring in Environmental Science from the College of Natural Resources and Environment, were among the winners.

       After Zhang Nuo came to China in 2017, she started to learn Chinese from scratch. In addition to intensive learning in class, she “picked up” Chinese words from various scenes in daily life. Even the local dialect “nia-nia” (interjection) in Yangling, Shaanxi Province has been incorporated into her “corpus”. Now she can not only communicate fluently in Chinese, but also express her thoughts with idioms such as “Mao Sui Zi Jian” (Self-recommendation) and “Qi Kai De Sheng” (Achieving victory). From time to time, she also makes a few witty words such as “It is tiring to be alive, so is why we are called humans”. In 2020, she went to Heyang County and Zhenba County of Shaanxi Province three times to participate in the “Rural Poverty Alleviation” activities, telling the world about China in her eyes. Wang Yi entered the College of Natural Resources and Environment in 2016 to study for his doctorate degree. He worked hard to overcome language communication barriers, quickly become integrated with Chinese students. He also actively spoke at the scientific research team meeting, listened carefully to the progress of his counterparts in scientific research, and shared his scientific research advancements, which impressed others by his kindness, modesty and positiveness. During his studies, he published three SCI papers as the first author and the other three papers as a participant.

NIYAZBEKOVA,ZHANNUR

ROY,RANA

       The program, the "Scholarship for Outstanding International Students" set up by the Ministry of Education, aims to encourage international students studying in China to study diligently and enterprisingly. Through which international students shall improve their overall level of both academic study and language learning in China. With the training, more outstanding international talents who know China well are expected to be cultivated to tell the world the Chinese culture, the hospitality of its people, and pass on Chinese voices to the world. They are also expected to contribute wisdom and strength for serving the "Belt and Road" development and building a community with a shared future for mankind. In 2020, a total of 575 students from more than 140 universities, including our university, were awarded this honor.