Yongyan ZHENG is now Professor in the College of Foreign Languages and Literature, Fudan University, China. She is listed as 2021 Highly Cited Chinese Researchers (Elsevier) in foreign languages and literature. She was a visiting scholar at the University of New South Wales, Australia (2018 August), a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Georgia State University (2016/2017) USA, and was a Tin Ka Ping Visiting Scholar at the University of Hong Kong (2013/2014) and Swire Scholar in Hong Kong (2006-2010). Her research interests include bilingual/multilingual development, academic literacies, and language-in-education planning. Her publications have appeared on Current Issues in Language Planning, International Journal of Multilingualism, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Journal of Scholarly Publishing Language Policy, Modern Language Journal, System, and so on. She is now Co-Editor of the international journal System, and Editor-in-Chief of Language, Culture and Curriculum.

        Along with the deepening process of globalization, massive migration and the transnational movement of talents have become increasingly common worldwide. As China ’s “Belt and Road” initiative has been put forward and fully advanced, the country ’s demand for “multilingual” talents with multiple foreign language abilities is increasing. Modern foreign language education calls for a paradigm shift, especially with regard to the foreign language education planning of non-foreign language universities. This presentation focuses on the multilingual turn in China’s foreign language education planning and policy, and introduces the implementation of a dual foreign language model for language majors and elective LOTE programs for non-language majors. Training goals, student feedback, learners’ motivation and engagement to take part in such programs will be presented to shed light on the opportunities and challenges of implementing multilingual education in Chinese universities.