The innovation and practice of this training mode oriented at foreign students who major at special subjects cross the industries was hold by Xi'an Shiyou University, which had been given a special award on higher education teaching achievement in Shanxi province in 2013, is the sole teaching achievement in Shanxi province aim at foreign students. Guangming Daily and Shanxi Daily had also reported about the university's cooperation in global resources, cultivating international geniuses, and innovating the training mode for foreign students .
Chinese petroleum companies are becoming more and more international. Especially, with the close international cooperation in Central Asia oil and gas ozone, our petroleum companies business are enlarged in the central Asia, middle east, and north Africa. So domestic person with abilities who major in petroleum subject, know Chinese language and culture and background of aimed nation, will be greatly needed.
Xi'an Shiyou University, famous for its special focus, analyses the current global resources, China's energy security strategy, Energy companies overseas development strategy, combining foreign students' need with overseas energy companies' demand, using its unique advantages of petroleum majority, long history, huge resources, stands out for its special subject, making full use of the industry advantages, will Actively explore petroleum engineering students of high-level in China.
Besides, the university pays attention to training students with practical application ability, strengthening the construction of practice base, developing diversified practice teaching system. The teaching system Constructed by the in-class practice, out class practice, and outside of the university practice, makes full use of the advantages of cooperation between colleges and builds both domestic practice base and overseas practice base. It also offers a chance by providing students with the oil industry practice and internship opportunities.
China national petroleum corporation held its first interview for foreign students only in this university. This is the first time that Chinese petroleum enterprise looks for foreign students. It’s a test to measure the university students’ education development achievements, and the main content of petroleum enterprise is "going out".
By developing industry education catering to the need of market, we have realized the rapid development of the education for foreign students studying in china, which, will promote the level of internationalization education of undergraduate course, and meet the need of fast development of the oil industry in china market at the same time.