TRADITIONS OF STUDYING THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE AT SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE LANGUAGE POLICY OF THE PRC

The article is researching origins of the study Russian language in China, the “boom” of the Russian language and Russian-Soviet culture in the 1950s. in the PRC, their “disgrace” during the “cultural revolution” and the “second spring of rapid development” after 1978. The object of the study is the language policy of the PRC, the main emphasis is on the analysis of the study of the Russian language in the city of Chongqing and Southwestern University (SWU), where the Russian language as a bachelor degree major was open in 1950, and then underwent a new birth in 2010. Attention is paid to the study of the formation and development of the Faculty of the Russian Language of SWU in retrospect, the names of teachers, including Soviet citizens, who were at the origins of Russian studies at the university are indicated, and a large amount of statistical data is provided. The main purpose of this article is to analyze the productive work of the Faculty of the Russian Language, reopened in 2010. The article presents positive trends in improving the methodological, educational, scientific, extracurricular work of the faculty, as a result of improving the quality of teaching and students' knowledge. The perspectives of conjugation of the “Belt and Road” initiative with the development of language policy in China are assessed. A conclusion is made about the development potential in the field of international cooperation and international exchanges of the Faculty of the Russian Language of SWU.