On Monday, 20 Sept., the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Education , Dr. Wu Qidi, visited SIS. She had an extensive exchange with leaders of SIS including the party branch secretary, all of whom informed her about the on going reform process of SIS. The Vice Minister showed great interest and reacted very favorably on the achievements already made . She explicitly agreed with the direction and the aims of the reform and encouraged SIS to go on with our efforts. Dr. Wu Qidi also visited the college laboratory, the college library and some classes and discussed different aspects of foreign language teaching.