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recently, relevant us authorities stated that american universities west of the mississippi river willcancel all chinese majors, retaining only one chinese program that provides intensive critical language instruction.

this meansbrigham young university, san francisco state university, university of hawaii, university of oregon, and university of washingtonchinese courses at five universities will lose all funding. arizona state university will become the only university in the western united states with a government-funded intensive chinese program.

according to a spokesperson, the reason for the closure of these majors is "changes in the allocation of funds for the program by the administration in fiscal year 2024."

the withdrawal of funding affects language majors at 13 universities, and the oregon project is one of the 13 projects. in addition to the five chinese language projects that have been cancelled,1 portuguese program, 3 arabic programs and 4 russian programsthe funding has not been renewed and faces cancellation.

previously, the university of science and technology of china cancelled its english major after years of suspension, which attracted widespread attention. recently, some domestic universities have also announced the suspension or cancellation of language majors.

huizhou university recently issued the "notice on the adjustment of huizhou university's undergraduate majors in 2024", and plans to apply to the ministry of education for the revocation ofbusiness english, marketing, and information management and information systems.

according to the "2024 suspension of majors in our school" recently announced by shenyang aerospace university, insurance, cross-border e-commerce, product design, welding technology and engineering,englishenrollment in 10 majors has been suspended.

in addition, jinan university recently released the "2023 professional adjustment situation", which mentioned that the school will stop recruiting in 2023.chinese international education, international economics and trade, investment, financial management,korean, german, environmental science, convention and exhibition economics and management, and public utilities management 9 majors.