On May 11, 2022, as part of the Day of Science with the support of the Confucius Institute Educational and Cultural Center of Ushinsky University, a lecturer from a Chinese partner university gave an open online lecture "Prospective Development of China" for first, second and third levels of higher education. This event was also joined by research and teaching staff of the Department of Translation and Theoretical and Applied Linguistics and the Department of Western and Oriental Languages and Methods of Their Teaching. The number of participants was 84 people.

Mr. Xi Honggan, Ph.D., Professor of Harbin University of Engineering, presented interesting material on the problems of economic and socio-infrastructural development of China's "poor" provinces and ways to overcome them.

The introductory speech was made by the Vice-Rector for Research, Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor Muzychenko Anna Vyacheslavovna. Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor Popova Olexandra Volodymyrivna reported on the experience of academic cooperation between Ushynsky University and Harbin Engineering University. After the discussion, the Head of the Department of Translation and Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Doctor of Philology, Professor Korolyova Tetyana Mykhailivna summed up the importance of the cultural component in mastering a foreign language and fruitful joint scientific work of students and teachers.