On June 10, 2026, the Sino-Russian Faculty-Student Exchange Forum, themed “Digital Intelligence Empowering the Future, Youth Building Dreams in China and Russia,” was held at Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications (CQUPT) as part of the Russia–China Year of Education. At the forum, the CQUPT–FEFU Virtual Teaching and Research Office for Language Education was officially inaugurated.
In 2025, CQUPT and Russia’s Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) established a joint institute, officially launching joint China-Russia education programmes. The joint institute completed its first enrollment in 2026, covering both undergraduate and graduate levels, with course systems delivered in Chinese, Russian and bilingual formats.
According to Evgeny Vlasov, Vice President of Far Eastern Federal University, the joint institute has been in operation for one year and the cooperation model has yielded remarkable results. CQUPT has a strong industrial foundation in fields such as artificial intelligence, electronic information and the digital economy, which is highly aligned with FEFU’s strategy of cultivating high-tech talents. Russian students can not only study cutting-edge technologies but also engage in industrial innovation practices.
Wang Yang, Dean of the Joint Institute, stated that in 2026, the university will comprehensively upgrade its China-Russia cooperative education programmes, with full enrollment opening for both undergraduate and graduate programmes. The programmes will introduce high-quality Russian scientific and educational resources as well as overseas enterprise resources, to build a comprehensive platform integrating international further education, employment and talent cultivation.
China has 185 universities offering Russian language programmes, with the number of Chinese students learning Russian growing by 7 percent over the past five years. Russian Confucius Institutes and classrooms enrolled 27,000 students last year and hosted more than 1,200 cultural events. The Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK) is developing rapidly in Russia, with test centres now covering more than 30 Russian cities and nearly 30,000 test takers last year.
