Recently, Qi Benhuang, a student of Grade 2015, won the first prize in 2016 National English Competition for College Students (NECCS) Finals, the first prize in the National College English Contest Finals, the English Talent Competition and the third prize in the National English Debate Contest. This is the best record since SUES students participated in those competitions.

NECCS Finals & 2016 National English Summer Camp for College Students is an important event subsequent to 2016 NECCS. The event aims to further encourage college students achieving excellent results in the preliminary and final contests to improve their English listening and oral proficiency and foster the spirits of self-reliance, innovation and teamwork. The Finals & Summer Camp was sponsored by the Ministry of Education College Foreign Language Teaching Guidance Committee and the University College Foreign Language Teaching and Research Association, and was undertaken by Tianren Newspaper Group English counseling newspaper, examination and evaluation magazine, Tian Ren times (Beijing) Technology Development Co., Ltd. The Finals & Summer Camp was conducted in the closed English environment, and Chinese and foreign English education and teaching experts also participated in various activities throughout the event so as to create a full English language and cultural environment for the Finals and Summer Camp and stimulate students to conduct language and cultural exchange in English. Such an entertaining environment would be conducive for students to lay a good foundation for lifelong English learning.

Under the strong support and guidance of the Office of Teaching Affairs, the School of Fundamental Studies attaches great importance to foreign language contests. The Teaching Section organized and mobilized the contest and even selected players in the preliminary contest; after selection, Qi Benhuang outstood and received directed one-to-one training by Professor Wang Shengli; then Qi Benhuang stood out in the preliminary contest of Shanghai Division and in the Finals in which nearly 450 athletes from all the colleges and universities throughout China participated; he realized zero-breakthrough for SUES in the national foreign English competition. The School of Fundamental Studies will, according to the requirement of doing a good job for the “Second Classroom”, furtherimprove the teaching quality of foreign language courses, deepen the reform of foreign language teaching and place this national competition as one of the key tasks. The School specifically set the competition committee, which held meetings for several times to study and well arrange the work of publicity, registration, notification and contact and other preparatory work. The committee also arranged for foreign language teachers to provide guidance to the players in preliminary and final competitions. By participating in the competition, students greatly enhance their interest in and proficiency of English.