The College of Overseas Chinese is an independent secondary college of Wenzhou University. Undertaking the discipline development, personnel training, and social services related to the study of overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese affairs, the College serves as an important window to showcase WZU’s efforts to build itself into a university supported by the Province and the Ministry with the overseas Chinese study as the characteristics. It offers interdisciplinary subjects of overseas Chinese and Chinese studies. The College fully leverages the local resources of Wenzhou, the big hometown of overseas Chinese, focuses on the situation in Europe, and carries out work in the three areas including overseas Chinese research, overseas Chinese culture, and overseas Chinese education. The research on overseas Chinese has the following main directions, namely, the history of the hometown of overseas Chinese, Chinese language and culture education, the economy of Chinese businessmen and the protection of the interests of overseas Chinese. It has a total of 7 research platforms and 21 research bases at home and abroad, including the Overseas Chinese Research Base in China (Wenzhou University), the Italian Research Center for Regional and Country Studies supported by the Ministry of Education, the World Wenzhou People Research Center, the Chinese Language Education Research Institute in Europe, and the Overseas Chinese Development and Overseas Chinese Affairs Research Center of Zhejiang Overseas Chinese Think Tank Alliance. At present, the College has 16 full-time teachers and 28 off-campus part-time researchers, and a team consisting of 115 researchers.

We adhere to the development path featuring the application-oriented think tank. Relying on the rich resources of overseas Chinese affairs at home and abroad, the research team conducts in-depth investigation and research, writes political consultation reports, and provides intellectual support for national, provincial and municipal departments. The College has 7 direct reporting channels. 80 (including 58 from 2021 to the present) political consultation reports were approved and adopted on topics such as the development and common prosperity of overseas Chinese hometowns, social sciences empowering the development of overseas Chinese hometowns, overseas Chinese business operations, the identity of the new generation overseas, the international communication of Chinese culture, and the survival of overseas Chinese during the epidemic. Among them, 45 received the feedbacks from leaders at or above the provincial and ministerial level. In addition, the team published 166 monographs (including 10 in 2021) and 79 papers. Zhejiang Overseas Chinese Networking College has built ties with over 300 overseas Chinese schools in more than 50 countries, serving more than 3 million (person-time) overseas Chinese.

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