Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) released the 2021-2025 SISU Global Strategy at the 2020 Conference on Further Opening of Education on November 19th, highlighting its new goals for the next five years.

GROWTH, the acronym created by the first letters of SISU’s newly announced six goals, embodies the university’s strategic pursuit of becoming a “Double First-Class” university. SISU has proposed to accomplish these strategic goals in the following six aspects: promoting comprehensive international cooperation strategy and global network building, cultivating talents with a global mindset, organizing faculties with global competence, advancing interdisciplinary integration and international cooperation in researches, enhancing global reputation and influence, building an efficient management and service system, and a smart and humanistic campus.