Prestigious universities to adopt foreign textbooks 

Tsinghua University, Beijing University and some other 30 universities across the country will from next semester on adopt the original version of physics textbooks for non-physics students imported from American California Polytechnic State University, bilingual teaching is be a trend in a number of universities. 

Some 30 universities in Beijing will adopt this teaching material for trial teaching. 

Five to 10 percent of bilingual curriculum will be popularized in university teaching within three years. 

Tsinghua University has already introduced original versions of teaching materials in 50 courses among 1440 courses. In the coming three years, 500 key courses in the university will fully adopt foreign teaching materials, and some 20 percent majors in Beijing University will use foreign teaching materials. 

Chinese textbooks outdated 

So far, a large part of teaching materials in Chinese universities have become something outdated in content, especially in management, nano-meter technology, gene, information and some other fields. Those materials have a large gap with foreign teaching materials. 

Ministry of Education requested promotion of foreign language teaching in institutes of higher leaning, particularly in majors as information, biology, new material technology, finance, law and some hot majors as China has already joined the WTO. 

According to reports, currently, foreign teaching material is basically confined in economics, management, medical sciences, computer and some other subjects, and some material's translation and printing quality is not high. 

In addition, price of most of foreign teaching material (at 30-50 US dollars) is higher for majority of Chinese students.   

(People Daily)