Dr Zhiyan Guo is Professor and Subject Leader of Chinese at the University of Warwick, Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK, and previously elected as Chair of the British Chinese Language Teaching Society. Her research interests include intercultural communication, language acquisition, Chinese characters and reading, and technology in language teaching. She published the monograph "Young Children as Intercultural Mediator: a Study of Mandarin-speaking Chinese Families in Britain" (Multilingual Matters 2014) and other publications (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5852-441).

Dr Ruth Herd has been Coordinator of Mandarin Chinese at Imperial College London since 2002. She has degrees in Chinese (1991) and Japanese (1983), both from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and obtained her doctorate in Oriental Studies from the University of Oxford (2001). In 2021, with Zhaoxia Pang she co-authored "Complete Mandarin", a beginners' course in the Teach Yourself series (CEFR A1 to touching B2).

Ms Jing Fang has an MSc in Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh. She has over 30 years' experience in teaching Chinese literature and language, as well as in teaching Chinese as foreign language. She has been Lecturer in Chinese at the University of Oxford since 2000. She has contributed to textbooks such as When in China: A Guide to Chinese Business Culture (Sinolingua 2015) and Social Perspective An Intermediate-Advanced Chinese Course published (Routledge 2022).

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China's influence on the international stage has grown significantly over recent decades. Alongside the rapid development of its economy, the country has come to play a key role within the global configuration of politics and diplomacy.

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Part I. Policy on Contemporary China's International Communication

Chapter 1: China and the World: an Overview

Text 1.1 From the song "Beijing Welcomes You" to the song "Together for a Shared Future"
Text 1.2 A continual rise or an imminent fall of China
Text 1.3: Why was Dongpo Su (a famous poet, in the Song Dynasty) selected as Millennium Hero by Paris.

Chapter 2: One Belt One Road: Mutually Beneficial Collaboration/win-win cooperation

Text 2.1 Five aspects of One Belt One Road Initiative.
Text 2.2 One Belt One Road Adding Vitality to Pakistan Economy
Text 2.3 Global discussion on the new stage of One Belt One Road Initiative.

Chapter 3: Building a community with a shared future for mankind

Text 3.1 International Forum Dialogues: Olympic spirits and building a community with a shared future for mankind.
Text 3.2 Russian media's commentaries on China's "Railway Diplomat".
Text 3.3 Hydraulic Electricity Project and Elephant and Dragon Village in Laos.

Chapter 4: Sustainable development

Text 4.1 2030 Support for ecological and environmental protection (excerpts from the White Paper)
Text 4.2 Biodiversity Protection System in China's National Parks
Text 4.3 Does global warming benefit the northern China?

Chapter 5: Poverty Alleviation in China, Contribution to the world

Text 5.1 China's contribution to poverty reduction in the world.
Text 5.2 Changes in Mount Daliang.
Text 5.3 Global discussion around the lessons learned from China's experience of poverty
alleviation.

Part II. International relations between China and other parts of the world.

Chapter 6: Sino-France Relations
Text 6.1 Montargis and Xiaoping Deng
Text 6.2 Sino-France joint communiqués
Text 6.3 A survey of current Frenchmen's opinion about China

Chapter 7: Sino-Africa Relations
Text 7.1 China in Africa, a new colonialism or a common development?
Text 7.2 Promotion and development of One Belt One Road in Africa.
Text 7.3 Chinese enterprises assisting African women's independence.

Chapter 8 Sino-UK Relations

Text 8.1 Internal and External factors for Sino-UK Relations.
Text 8.2 "Golden Age" fading in Sino-UK Relations: history and current situation.
Text 8.3 "Hong Kongness" or "Chinese"? Two young people's identity formation at the 25th
anniversary of Hong Kong returning to China.

Chapter 9 Sino-Russia Relations
Text 9.1 "Travel Diplomacy" in Sino-Russia Relations.
Text 9.2 Sino-Russia Relations against the backdrop of global pattern and configuration.
Text 9.3 Sino-Russia economic collaboration: current situation and future potentials.

Chapter 10 Sino-US Relations

Text 10.2 Increasingly competing Sino-US Relations in the next decade.
Text 10.3 Ordinary American's recounts of "Ping Pang Diplomacy"