On July 11, 2019, Prof. Huang Guowen, Dean of the School of Foreign Studies, was invited to participate in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Foreign Language Curriculum Development Forum--Development and Cooperation of Foreign Language Curriculum hosted by the Center for Foreign Language Education and Research of the City University of Macau .

The forum was chaired by Dr. Hu Bo, Director of the Foreign Language Center of City University of Macao. Prof. Ye Guiping, Associate Vice President of City University of Macau, Dr. Shuying Li, Academic Dean, and Professor Wang Zhong, Deputy Dean of School of Humanities and Social Sciences attended. In addition to Dean Huang Guowen, the experts who participated in the forum included Prof. Pan Haihua, Director of the Linguistics Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prof. Zhang Xin, Dean of the English School of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, and Dr. Wang Yuying from the Macau Institute of Technology.

Dean Huang Guowen gave a report entitled Special Issues in the Construction of Foreign Language Professions at the meeting, in which he discussed the importance of foreign language major construction in the new era. He focused on analyzing the subject positioning of foreign language majors in agricultural and forestry universities, and based on the experience of the School of Foreign Studies of South China Agricultural University in recent years, he pointed out that the construction of English courses in agricultural and forestry universities should be problem-oriented, clarify the purpose of talent training, and have their own features. Dean Huang Guowen introduced our school's ecolinguistics module and showed how to combine the country's rural revitalization and ecological civilization construction to build their own characteristics and advantages. Dean Huang Guowen's report was highly endorsed by the leaders, experts and English teachers present. The foreign language major construction ideas he proposed have a guiding role in the development of foreign language courses in universities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

The forum on the one hand publicized our school’s construction concepts and ecolinguistic studies, and on the other hand, promoted the exchanges between our school and other high-level universities in the Greater Bay Area.

(Report by Qin Jianhua)