On September 21, the Xinjiang New Liberal Arts Education Alliance released the approval list for its 2026 New Liberal Arts Research and Reform Practice Project. Only 20 projects across Xinjiang were granted approval, with one awarded to our university. Theproject,Research and Practice on the Sharing Mechanism of High-Quality Educational Resources among Regional Universities in the Context of New Liberal Arts: Based on the Exploration ofChina-UK Undergraduate International Education Programs, was submitted by a research team from the College of International Education (CIE).As CIE’s first provincial and ministerial-level project, it marks a breakthrough from a zero. Italsoshows that CIE plays a positiverole in integrating into the Xinjiang New Liberal Arts Education Alliance, advancing education opening-up and contributing to the development of a region strong in education.

Responding to the demands of Xinjiang’s westward opening-upstrategy and the development of the core area of the Silk Road Economic Belt, the projectbuilds on over 20 years of experience inrunning the China-UK Undergraduate International Education Program. It focuses onco-development and sharing of high-quality regionalnew liberal arts resources, institutional design, platform construction, and the wider promotion of international educational resources. The project strives to build a resource-sharing mechanism among regional universitieswith jointly developed standard,shared platforms andsustainable incentives, so as to underpin the high-quality development of new liberal arts education in Xinjiang.

Taking this approval as an opportunity, the College will strengthen project organization and implementation, ensure all research tasks deliver progress and results, and strive to produce high-quality, practically useful and impactful research output, providing fresh impetus to the university’s new liberal arts development and collaborative innovation among regional institutions.