From September 15th to 19th, the 2025 Admission Education Week for Freshmen Studying in China was successfully held. More than 20 freshmen from the United States, Germany, Brazil, Vietnam, Laos, Argentina and other countries successfully completed the entry registration and procedures, listened to the special lecture on "Understanding China", went to the History Museum of Fuzhou University and the Fujian Provincial Museum to study and exchange, and experienced the intangible cultural heritage production skills of Fuzhou jasmine tea in the Fuzhou Shangxiahang Jasmine Tea Aesthetic Base, officially opening a new life of "studying in Fuzhou University".
During the Entrance Education Week, the "2025 Global Sister College Chinese and Chinese Culture Training Program" will open simultaneously. Students from overseas sister universities such as Ludwigshafen University of Economics and Applied Sciences in Germany, Vale University in Brazil, and Vientiane National University in Laos gathered at Fuzhou University to begin a one-year immersive study of Chinese and Chinese culture. At the opening ceremony, Director Yuan Long of the Office of Foreign Cooperation and Exchange welcomed young students from all over the world, hoping that they would cherish the opportunity to study in China, improve their Chinese proficiency, understand China and culture up close, and become a bridge and link between China and foreign exchanges. Subsequently, Director Yu Yuanlong presented the "Scholarly China" school supplies representing traditional Chinese culture to the international students, encouraging them to exchange and learn more from Chinese students, participate in healthy and uplifting campus cultural activities, so as to better integrate into the campus life of Fuzhou University.
Professor Lin Sheng of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and Associate Professor Zhu Ningyi of the School of Economics and Management were invited to give special lectures on "China and the World" and "This is Fujian" for the freshmen, encouraging them to learn Chinese well and become international talents of "Zhihua and Youhua".
During the exchange period in Shangxiahang, the freshmen personally experienced the production of jasmine tea, learned about the development history of Fuzhou jasmine tea and the business exchanges between Fuzhou and overseas, felt the traditional Hanfu culture, and completed the first social practice of "understanding China".
In June 2025, she participated in the "German Youth Chinese Cultural Visit Program" (YES Project of the China Education Association) organized by the School of Economics and Management of Fuzhou University, and gained a preliminary understanding of Fuzhou University. "My major in Germany is East Asian economics, and I need to take a foreign language in Japanese, Korean and Chinese, and go to the corresponding country for a year. Many students chose to go to Japan and South Korea, but I chose Chinese, I have been to Fuzhou, and I feel very cordial, so I chose Fuzhou between Shanghai, Suzhou, and Fuzhou."
Through the entrance education week, the freshmen also received legal and safety education in China. Under the guidance of the teachers of the Office of Foreign Cooperation and Exchange, the freshmen carefully read the "International Student Handbook" and dormitory management regulations, learned the laws and regulations on the entry and exit of foreigners, and improved their safety awareness of traffic and fire protection, so as to prepare for future study and life.
