SISU celebrates 70th anniversary

Following the country's major economic reforms which started in the late 1970s, the school's graduates made a great contribution to the country. During the 1980s, the school implemented a series of educational reforms to transform the institute into a multidisciplinary university. In 1983, the school launched a degree program in international journalism, the university's first degree that combined foreign language training with another academic discipline.

Li Rui, a former student who majored in Persian at the school and worked in Iran as a Phoenix TV reporter for over a decade, points out that the Iranians' understanding of China 10 years ago was mainly shaped by what was reported in the Western media. Today, the increasing presence of Chinese media in the country has created another means for the people from the two countries to better understand each other.

She says: "I also feel that the Iran government has placed increasing importance to cooperation with China in recent years. Senior government officials of the country have repeatedly mentioned China's Belt and Road Initiative during interviews with me and they have expressed high hopes for China's future and their collaboration with China."