Teaching and Research Section for English Majors now has 14 faculty members, including 5 professors, 5 associate professors, and 4 lecturers. All faculty members under 35 years old own master’s or higher degrees. 4 teachers possess doctoral degrees, one of whom is a postdoctoral fellow. 60 per cent of teachers have engaged in advanced study in domestic and foreign universities or studied abroad. 3 foreign teachers are employed.

The Section has undertaken the teaching activities for English majors. It once was rewarded the title of Excellent Teaching Team of HEU. The English Major was listed as the Key Major of Heilongjiang Province in 2011 and the First-Class Major of Heilongjiang Province in 2021. In 2022, the English Major was approved as the National First-Class Major Construction Site. The faculty members of the Section have gained provincial awards in recent years which include the Prominent Teachers of Heilongjiang Province and the Advanced Individuals in Establishing Teachers’ Professional Ethnics and Morality of Heilongjiang Province. The teaching team has won the third place in the national finals and the first prize in the national semifinals of the “Teaching Star” Competition of FLTRP, along with the special prize, first prize, and second prize in the final of the Higher Education Institutions “Teaching Star” Foreign Language Gold Course Team Competition of Heilongjiang Province. In 2022, the teaching team of Comprehensive English was approved as the Construction Site of Provincial-level “Three Enterings” Demonstration Course Teaching Team.

In recent years, the Section has undertaken over 30 national and provincial level scientific research programs. More than 100 academic papers on teaching and scientific research have been published, some of which were published in international authoritative journals and the source journals of CSSCI, including Foreign Language World, Foreign Languages in China, Foreign Language Research, Comparative Literature in China, Computer-Assisted Foreign Language Education, etc., and other core journals in the field of foreign languages. More than 10 academic monographs and translation works were published. The teachers have also participated in editing and writing over 20 textbooks, three of which are National Planned Textbooks.

The English Major aims to cultivate talents with high comprehensive quality, qualified professional abilities, and a certain level of critical thinking and innovative spirit. In the future, based on the needs of building a national first-class undergraduate major, the English Major will continue to rely on HEU’s advantages of shipbuilding, ocean, and nuclear engineering disciplines, adhere to the student-centered approach, and seek the development path of “integrating mainstream, increasing characteristics, laying a solid foundation, and strengthening qualities”. The mission is to cultivate high-quality foreign language talents who can integrate the essence of Chinese and Western cultures with humanistic spirit, scientific literacy, high morality, and professional skills. The versatile talents graduated from the English Major will continuously meet the national strategic needs of building a science, technology, and maritime power, respond to the demands of economic development of Heilongjiang Province, and fit the educational positioning of HEU.