Recently, due to her courage and dedication in managing international students during the COVID - 19 pandemic in 2020, Teacher Zhang Jingjing from the International Cooperation and Exchange Office of our college was honored as an "Outstanding Worker for International Students in China" by the Foreign Students Work Committee of the Sichuan Higher Education Society.
In 2020, the COVID - 19 pandemic brought profound changes to the management of international students in China, presenting new opportunities and challenges. The international student management staff at our college stayed on the front line and worked together. They made significant contributions in areas such as recruitment and publicity for international students, anti - epidemic services, online learning, and assistance for students in difficulty. They received high praise from the source countries of international students, including Laos, Cambodia, Tajikistan, and Thailand, as well as from the provincial education department and the Foreign Students Work Committee of the Sichuan Higher Education Society. The recognition of Teacher Zhang Jingjing is an acknowledgment of our college's efforts in preventing imported cases of COVID - 19 and the work of the international student management team. As of now, our college has 218 international students from 12 countries.
With the sudden outbreak of COVID - 19 in 2020, Teacher Zhang Jingjing's winter vacation was cut short. She was concerned about the 80 - plus international students who stayed on campus during the winter vacation and the 100 who returned home. She quickly returned to Leshan and stayed at her post. She kept her phone on 24/7 to answer any questions from students. She noticed that "due to language barriers, differences in national conditions, media hype, and parental concerns, international students on campus found it hard to distinguish the truth of online information. They gradually became nervous and anxious and felt at a loss." Every day, she selected reports from official mainstream media, Leshan's prevention and control measures, the home - staying status of Leshan citizens, and her own home - staying videos. She repeatedly promoted them to the international student community via WeChat. She required students to cooperate with the后勤department to disinfect their dormitories and surrounding areas in time and to monitor their body temperature twice a day. Together with the Student Affairs Department, she arranged for teachers from the Mental Health Education and Counseling Center to provide psychological counseling for international students on campus to relieve their doubts and panic and build confidence. She coordinated with the Academic Exchange Center to implement the college's arrangement to provide free meals for international students on campus starting from February 8. She also worked with the Academic Affairs Office to guide students on how to use the sports venues for physical exercise during the campus lockdown.
For international students who wanted to leave China as soon as possible due to the outbreak, she did patient and detailed counseling work, actively helped them book plane and high - speed train tickets. Even when students did not have enough funds, she unhesitatingly paid for their plane tickets. To reduce students' contact with the outside world, Teacher Zhang Jingjing drove the students to the high - speed train station. Due to language barriers and other issues, when a student's flight was canceled, she comforted the student and actively contacted the airline to handle the ticket refund and re - booking.
She tracked each student who left school in a card - like manner and required them to self - quarantine at home for 14 days after returning to their home countries.
After the epidemic situation stabilized, Teacher Zhang Jingjing actively contacted the Academic Affairs Office to organize the teaching work for overseas students in the 2019 - 2020 academic year. She had in - depth discussions with the Academic Affairs Office on issues such as the network, time difference, learning effect, and supervision measures for overseas students. It was decided that the hardware platform for online teaching should adopt the basic method of online micro - videos + WeChat group interaction, with Tencent Online Video Conference platform as an auxiliary tool. Three methods were used in combination: recorded broadcast and micro - course on - demand + WeChat group interaction, platform live - teaching + online interaction, and supplementary use of public online teaching platforms. After careful deployment and testing, on March 1, 2020, international students in China and abroad began online teaching using different platforms. At the same time, Teacher Zhang Jingjing followed up on the online teaching situation, dealt with feedback in a timely manner, and ensured the linkage of "students - teachers - college" to guarantee teaching quality in real - time.
If the epidemic is a war without gunpowder, then Teacher Zhang Jingjing is also one of the "counter - marchers." During the epidemic, Leshan Vocational and Technical College received condolences and affirmation from units such as the Department of Education and Sports of Luang Namtha Province, Laos, and the World Federation of Chinese Associations in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos (Asia).
