Since the founding of the university, BLCU has trained about 70,000 domestic students and 220,000 international students from 184 countries and regions, who have a profound knowledge of the Chinese language, society and culture. Our alumni are working now in every part of the world. Among them are statesmen like some Premier and Speaker of the House, diplomats like some ambassador, envoy and counselor to China as well as famous scholars and business leaders. What’s more important, many of them have become the pillars of international Chinese education and goodwill messengers, committed to the cultural exchanges between China and the world.
Mulatu Teshome Wirtu, President of Ethiopian, studied at BLCU from 1976 to 1977. | Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, studied at BLCU from 1983-1984. | Karim Massimov, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, studied at BLCU in 1988. | Igor Morgulov, Vice Minister of Ministry of Foreign Affair, Russia, studied at BLCU from 1983 to 1984. |
Sylvie Bermann, French ambassador to China, studied at BLCU from 1976 to 1977. | Miomir Udovicki, Serbian ambassador to China, studied at BLCU from 1981 to 1982. | Munshi Faiz Ahmad, Bangladeshi ambassador to China, studied at BLCU from 1981 to 1983. | Masood Khan, Pakistani ambassador to China, studied at BLCU from 1982 to 1984. |
Alberto Jesus Blanco Silva, Cuban ambassador to China, studied at BLCU from 1986 to 1989. | Romulus Ioan Budura, former Romanian ambassador to China, was among the earliest foreign students in BLCU. | Viorel Isticioaia Budura, former Romanian ambassador to China, studied at BLCU from 1973 to 1974. | Hajdar Muneka, former Albanian ambassador to China, studied at BLCU from 1973 to 1977. |
Abdulmalek S. M. Al-Muaalemi, former Yemeni ambassador to China, studied at BLCU in 1975. | Vichit Xindavong, former Laotian ambassador to China, studied at BLCU from 1977 to 1978. | Shaher Mohammad, former Palestinian ambassador to Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and People’s Republic of Bangladesh, studied at BLCU from 1974 to 1979. | Carlos Miquel Bereira Aernandez, former Cuban ambassador to China, studied at BLCU from 1991 to 1992. |
Riaz Mohammad Khan, former Pakistani ambassador to China, studied at BLCU from 1979 to 1980. | Eric Allin Cornell, Nobel Prize winner for physics in 2001 and professor of University of Colorado, U.S., studied at BLCU in 1983. | Joel Bellassen, inspector general of Chinese language teaching, Ministry of Education, France, studied at BLCU from 1973 to 1974. | Wolfgang Werner Kubin, German sinologist and professor of University Bonn, studied at BLCU from 1974 to 1975. |
Peter Kupfer, German sinologist and professor of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, studied at BLCU in 1996. | Federico Masini, Italian sinologist and president of Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Rome, studied at BLCU from 1983 to 1984. | Liliana Arsovska, Mexican sinologist and professor of College of Mexico, studied at BLCU from 1981 to 1985. | Qiao Xiaoyang, Under-Secretary-General of Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, studied at BLCU from 1964 to 1968. |
Huang Ronghui, First Deputy Director of Chinese Commission for World Climate Research Program (WCRP) and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, studied at BLCU in 1978. | Liu Jie, candidate member of the 15th and 16th Central Committee of CPC, representative of the 9th and 10th National People’s Congress and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, studied at BLCU from 1974 to 1975. | Chen Limin, Director of Secretariat for Administration and Justice, the Macau Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China, studied mandarin at BLCU from 1992 to 1993. | Hong Lei, Deputy Director General of the Information Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, China, studied at BLCU from 1987 to 1991. |
Qian Tong, Director of News Center, Xinhua News Agency, studied at BLCU from 1987 to 1991. | Ji Xiaojun, English-Chinese bilingual host for CCTV, studied at BLCU from 1990 to 1994. |