The Cultivation of Foreign Language Talents for China’s Modernization: A Case Study of Vietnamese Majors at a Chinese University

As a bridge and link of economic exchange, foreign language talents, especially those who master the languages of countries with unique geographical locations around China, play a vital role in the process of China’s modernization. This paper chooses a Border Chinese University as the research site to dig out the contributions that the foreign language talents (using the Vietnamese as example) have done for the China’s modernization. By using the way of semi-structured interviews, online and offline interactions, face-to-face communication, the paper explores the cultivation of foreign language talents in a university with a deep analysis. Findings show that such talents can not only skillfully tell Chinese stories in the language of the target country, but also deeply explore the inheritance and influence relationship between China’s excellent culture and the economy and culture of neighboring countries, so as to better promote two-way in-depth integration, communication and cooperation. It is apparently shown that at present, how to explore the new path of language talents training in neighboring countries and how to train foreign language talents in a broader sense has become a new question in front of our higher education workers. This paper discussed with the problems that now presented in cultivation of foreign language talents, which will show a paradigm for the foreign language talents cultivations.