On March 19th, the 2025 Spring and Summer semester's Faculty Meeting of the School of Foreign Languages was held in the lecture hall of Yang Yongman Building. The meeting deployed the key tasks for the year, united the staff's efforts and concentrated on the development of the school. All the faculty and staff of the SFL attended the meeting, which was presided over by Zhu Yifan, the SFL Party Secretary. 

President Shang Biwu delivered the SFL's work report and key task deployment for the 2025 pring and summer semester. He briefly reviewed the work of the previous year and made key task deployments in areas such as Party building, talent recruitment, talent cultivation, scientific research, international cooperation, social services, and cultural construction. He emphasized that at this critical juncture of concluding the 14th Five-Year Plan and planning for the 15th Five-Year Plan, all members of the SFL will work together, actively serve the national strategy, closely follow the needs of the times and social development, follow the school's work plan, focus on the core tasks of SFL development, build a high-quality teaching staff with noble professional ethics, excellent professional skills, vitality, and a reasonable structure, and strive to cultivate top-notch innovative foreign language talents. He called on everyone to be pragmatic, proactive, and continue to strive. 

Ren Zhujing, the deputy Party Secretary, introduced the recent personnel policies and the interpretation of the welfare policies for the teaching staff. Jin Jing, head of the administrative office, introduced the design plan and progress of the reconstruction of the Laser Building. 

Wang Liwei, the director of the Teaching Development Center of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Meng Jia, the deputy director, were invited to introduce the construction of AI+HI courses  to guide and encourage teachers to actively explore and practice AI+HI foreign language courses. 

A welcome ceremony for new faculty was also held at the meeting. Professor Wang Shengyuan,  tenured professor of the Japanese Department; and Zhang Di, tenured Assistant Professor in the Undergraduate College English Division; and Zhang Ruining, the deputy director of the Administrative Office, were welcomed to join the SFL.