(BEIJING, November 7, 2026) — To expand internship and employment opportunities for students and help enterprises recruit international talent, the 2026 Job Fair for International Talent opened on the morning of November 7 at the Gymnasium of the East Campus of Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU). Guided by the Beijing Municipal Education Commission, and co-hosted by BFSU and the University–Enterprise Cooperation Platform for International Students in China, the event was jointly organized by the BFSU International Business School (IBS.BFSU), the Center for Career Development and Entrepreneurship, and the Overseas Students Office.

The Job Fair adopted a hybrid format combining an on-site session with a dedicated online session, the latter held via Zoom and live-streamed on official social media channels from October 29 to 31. According to preliminary statistics, the fair brought together more than 130 leading Chinese companies with global operations — including Xiaomi, BYD, ByteDance, Geely, CFMOTO, Transsion, Midea, KUKA Home, CCECC, China State Construction, and Sany Heavy Industry. In total, the event attracted over 20,000 Chinese and international students from more than 200 institutions across 127 countries, with over 16,000 participating online and around 4,460 attending in person.

Among the guests attending the event were Dong Chuan, Director of the International Cooperation and Exchange Office of the Beijing Municipal Education Commission; Jia Dezhong, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Committee of BFSU; and Lin Xiao, Vice President of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), together with colleagues from partner institutions and representatives from the business community. The opening ceremony was moderated by Sifei Li, Dean of the International Business School of BFSU.、

In his address, Jia Dezhong noted that as Chinese enterprises continue to expand into overseas markets, demand is growing ever more urgent for versatile professionals equipped with a global outlook, disciplinary expertise, and cross-cultural communication skills. He reaffirmed BFSU's longstanding commitment to cultivating internationally competent talent, and expressed the hope that the job fair would serve as a catalyst for deeper university–enterprise collaboration, bridging talent cultivation with the real needs of industry.

Addressing the ceremony, Lin Xiao spoke highly of the initiative and expressed the hope of further leveraging the University–Enterprise Cooperation Platform for International Students in China to strengthen university–enterprise linkages, and to jointly explore new pathways for cultivating and delivering innovative talent with global competence.

Sun Xiaomeng, Global Campus Recruitment and Employer Branding Manager at Xiaomi Corporation, shared insights into the diverse talent needs of technology companies going global. She encouraged students not to be confined by their academic majors or first job titles, but to keep their passion for learning and their capacity to adapt to change. Liu Yang, a representative of KUKA Home Co., Ltd., presented the company's global development strategy and expressed the hope of exploring more diversified forms of university–enterprise cooperation in the future.

Joshua Best, a fourth-year British undergraduate at the International Business School of BFSU, spoke on behalf of international students. Reflecting on the School's "language + cross-cultural competence + business" education model, he expressed particular gratitude to IBS.bfsu for its wealth of hands-on opportunities and the dedicated mentorship of its faculty. Speaking on behalf of Chinese students, Fang Dechao, a member of the Class of 2027 from the School of Arabic Studies at BFSU, observed that the wave of Chinese enterprises going global offers young talent a broad international stage, and called on fellow students to integrate their personal career development into the globalization journey of Chinese enterprises.

Following the opening ceremony, the on-site job fair officially commenced. The venue buzzed with energy as students eagerly submitted CVs and engaged in face-to-face conversations with HR managers and executives at the booths of participating enterprises.

In recent years, the IBS.BFSU has been deeply engaged in the "going global" strategies of Chinese enterprises, continuously supplying high-caliber, versatile talent through initiatives such as Immersion Weeks, recruitment sessions by leading companies, and dedicated job fairs. The successful staging of this year's fair has not only opened up a broad international career stage for Chinese and international students alike, but also provided solid international talent support for Chinese enterprises as they reach out to the wider world.