This year, more international students came to AXHU community

Sep 17, 2025, International Office，5-minute read

In the beginning of fall semester, 2025, more than one hundred foreign students, C’29, had finished their incoming registration proceedings as of Sep 15 at AXHU School of International Education, including check-in at the college house on campus, who are from many of the “Belt and Road” countries, such as Mongolia, Indonesia, Thailand, Russia, Kazakhstan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, or other regions. [Stay up to the date, the number of current international students of first-years and second-years, totaling 144].

Clearly with that, this year’s AXHU community itself got onto a new culturally-diversified educational outlook with a more exotic, inclusive impression of AXHUers’ efforts to support the world-wide higher education moving forward professionally to please a vast majority of the world’s youth populations, who not only want to hit a higher point while academic career, but also can do well for the China-initiated “Shared Future of Human Beings,” strenuously, ideologically, and objectively also.   

The international newcomers’ Day-One experiences at the One-stop Service Station fully prepared a couple of weeks ago by the international office’s staff and a fair number of senior student volunteers at the schools and departments, being interculturally available throughout their professional dedications on agenda and like-minded efforts accessible in multiple languages at the time, got surprised, impressed, and encouraged to live a sense of campus life that will be based and fostering inclusively in central China, that is synonymous with ‘BELONGINGS’ to each other, who are exclusively, romantically heartened in such warm-hearted autumn of AXHU yard, eternally themed “LOVE & GROW,” altogether.

And the orientation series, moreover, also included culturally immersive interactivity, such as Signing up to AXHU Community, Posing for A Group Photo at Culture Wall—representing and defining for their own AXHU moment.    

What to know about AXHU community

As another part of the welcome ceremony, they, merrily along with the managing chiefs, were getting around to take to—holding the Handout of the campus map, onboarding guidelines and life tips, offered by the International Student Affairs Office—the AXHU-wide academic landmarks like libraries, labs, and R&D centers, and having a ‘touristy’ trip to the facilities and natural attractions, from college houses, sporting venues, cafeterias, shopping center, dine-in/takeaway snack stalls or beverage bars (Incl. online ordering and delivery) to culture plazas, Ruqin Lake, and more, which helped make the new students become familiar with the overall natural, academic, and humanistic environment as much as they can in person.

Exposure to the Chinese Language Studies

Initially, the School also provided the Lead-in Course and Fun Class series, and then the beginners were greatly encouraged to join their first-time linguistic experiences in face-to-face dialogues or other warm-up interactions, comprising the Chinese PinYin Table, Chinese characters’ origins forming in pictograph and images of natural resemblances, all in all, during which they are engaged themselves into the active Chinese language context for special exhibition based on a selection of cultural icons, traditional stories, scene plays, and more.

On-campus Security & Safety

At a theme Class Meeting, the School’s managing secretary WU Haifeng’s lecture briefed the relevant documentations official, such as “Service Guide on Issuance of Exit-Entry Permits for Foreigners,” “AXHU International Student Handbook,” “Regulations for AXHU Residence Permit,” and the likes, and combing with some of sample cases, detailed “the laws, visa extension and change, insurance, health check-up, other Security & Safety measures, and emergency services on campus,” while everyone signing up to the “International Student College House Residence Agreement.”  

For the know-how and skill, and learning support titled “Easy Life in Hefei,” he also introduced step-on-step the local major applications on mobile APPs, covering AXHU campus card, Alipay Payment, Gaode electronic map, and much more.

Cultural Adaptation

To have a Chinese name, and to have a feel of the glamour, wisdom, and arts of Chinese traditional paintings, calligraphy, and craftsmanship & artifacts in Beijing Opera Facial Masks or Paper Cutting, etc., such as a student from Mongolia called BAYANMUNKH TSELMEG was then pleased with her Chinese poetic naming with清月—literally meaning “pellucid, limpid moon”—that was in simplicity, readability, and classical aesthetics upon intercultural receptions.

And an active conversation of “To Know More in China” moderated by the School’s dean FAN Dongsheng, was highlighting: “while living and studying while making more friends in AXHU community, to expand opportunities and connections as much dearly as you want to the indigenous language and culture, and young fellow peoples, and to pursue a great career as one of the internationalized competent talents, via shaping a brand new lifestyle started to increase YOUR own academic strengths on the campus, and inclusive attitude of humanistic coexistence based on the Chinese definitions of enabling ‘shared future’ in the new era.” 

In addition, Prof. Fan also according to the 2025-26 agenda of teaching and research, foretasted a vision of Chinese cultural experience and extracurricular vigor to come up with detailed, scheduled, and rigorous academic preparations—already, special for all the C’29 members to explore much more Anhui-area iconic existences and the local people’s resolutions for the future China.

Gathering at the starting point in Anhui, China, both the oncoming positive adaptations at culture turns and the ongoing aggressive improvements by AXHU-wide majors and specialties improved by extroverted AXHUers’ patriotic passion and academic endeavors both with innovation and in sustainability, might help our incoming international youth here to have a different life experience, during which they can co-create a vivid, prosperous, and multicultural, multilingual and multinational era-friendly higher education landscape, which could be internationally materialized with a kind of meta- but macro-narration, if possible at our times, recorded for human civilizations.