The Exploration for the Development Path of Foreign Language Instruction in Universities Featuring Industry-specific Education: Taking University of Science and Technology Beijing as an Example

Universities featuring industry-specific education are at the forefront of the nation’s effort to advance talent cultivation and the scientific innovation in strategic and key areas. The foreign language instruction in these universities underpins their cultivation of compound talents, international scientific innovation, and the global people-to-people exchanges. Foreign language instruction in the University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB) has grown in sync with the university. The past seven decades witnessed its birth, bourgeoning development, reform, and leapfrog progress. Nowadays, a foreign language instruction system featuring strong support for the industry and rich academic capabilities has been put into place. This paper reflects on the 70-year development of foreign language instruction in the USTB, and explores the way forward for the foreign language instruction in universities featuring industry-specific education, in an effort to provide inspiration and reference for the high-quality development of foreign language instruction in universities of this kind in China.