On   November 16, the "Seminar on Japanese Teaching and Teacher Quality   Improvement in the New Era and the First Symposium on Japanese Studies" were   jointly organized by School of Foreign Languages and Shanghai Foreign   Language Education Press in the lecture hall on the eighth floor of the   library of Dongfeng campus. The conference attracted nearly one hundred   Japanese teachers from various universities in China.

LIU   Wei, Secretary of the School of Foreign Languages, Guangdong University of   Technology, delivered a welcome speech first. Secretary LIU Wei pointed out   that with the formal implementation of the Plan for the Guangdong-Hong   Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Guangdong Province has ushered in   unprecedented new opportunities for development. Under the new situation of   constructing the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, it has become a   new topic for the community of Japanese studies to find ways to make full use   of the advantages of Japanese studies research so as to make it more   satisfied with the needs of the Greater Bay Area, better serve the   construction of the Greater Bay Area, and cultivate innovative and applied   professionals. The purpose of this conference is, with the spirit of the   Ministry of Education to improve teaching quality and faculty cultivation in universities, to promote the   cultivation of Japanese teaching and research talents in universities and to   meet the needs of Japanese teachers’ professional development to help them   develop better.

Afterwards,   seven experts and scholars from Shanghai International Studies University,   Sun Yat-sen University, Jinan University and Guangdong University of Foreign   Studies and other well-known domestic universities gave keynote speeches.   Professor Tong Jun from Sun Yat-sen University analyzed the negation, word   formation and substitution of the old Japanese universal verb "あり" and discussed   its pragmatic function in depth. Professor Wang Zhuo from Jinan University   through examining the works of Sinology master Wang Guowei suggested that the   formation of Wang Guowei's academic thoughts was based on the translation of   a large number of Japanese academic works. Associate Professor Lin Qinghua of   our university, through detailed examination and comparison, proposed that   the four main criteria for a good translation are: appropriate genre,   accurate words, exact understanding and moderate effort. Professor Zhang   Yuqin from Guangdong Business and Technology University discussed the   problems and their countermeasures in the faculty cultivation of Japanese   major in private universities under the background of new era. Professor Pi   Xiegeng from Shanghai International Studies University, based on his teaching   experience of many years, vividly and specifically analyzed the   characteristics of Japanese phonetics, characters, vocabulary, grammar, and   language and culture, society and life, and pointed out some areas that need   attention in the reflection on teaching. Combining with the new national   standard of Japanese language, Professor Chen Dayou from Guangdong University   of Foreign Studies pointed out the problems and directions of the reform of   Japanese major in the light of the new situation, new demands, new trends and   new changes that we are facing nowadays. Professor Yang Hong of Lingnan   Normal University highlighted the faculty cultivation, curriculum and   teaching material setting and talent training mode of Japanese major in   Lingnan Normal University, and put forward some feasible suggestions to   improve the teaching level and quality of Japanese teachers in universities.

In   this conference, we exchanged and looked ahead to the current situation and   prospects of Japanese studies and the reform of Japanese major, discussed and   researched new perspectives, new viewpoints and new methods for the   construction of Japanese studies and Japanese major. The success of this   conference is of great significance to the promotion of Japanese studies and   Japanese major. The teachers who attended the conference all expressed that   they had benefited a lot from the conference. They hoped to meet again next   year at Guangdong University of Technology to continue to discuss how to improve   their teaching quality and research level under the background of the new   era.