CNU is one of the universities approved by the Ministry of Education to accept foreign students and a member of the Beijing-Hong Kong Universities Alliance. It is the only demonstration base for studying in China awarded by the Ministry of Education among the universities in Beijing. It is also the preparatory education base for undergraduate students who come to China under the Chinese Government Scholarship granted by the Ministry of Education, and one of the four universities selected as the first batch of Beijing Chinese Education Base in Beijing. CNU set up the Center for Western European Studies and at the same time was selected as the Beijing Belt and Road National Talents Cultivation Base.

CNU actively holds international cultural exchange activities. So far, it has established inter-university exchanges and cooperation with 286 universities in 49 countries as well as Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Students from 97 countries and regions are receiving education for bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees. It has also set up 4 Confucius Institutes, 2 Independent Confucius Classrooms and 1 Confucius Classroom Coordination Office, namely the Confucius Institute at St Petersburg State University in Russia, the Confucius Institute at the University of Venice in Italy, the Confucius Institute at the University of Piura in Peru, the Confucius Institute at the University at Buffalo of the State University of New York in America, the Confucius Institute at the University of Bremen in Germany, the Independent Confucius Classroom at the Hungarian-Chinese Bilingual School in Hungary, the Independent Confucius Classroom at the University of Luxor in Egypt and the Confucius Classroom Coordination Office at the St. Cloud State University in America. In collaboration with Flinders University in Australia, it has cultivated 840 Master of Education students.

The CNU High School and the CNU Yuxin School are experimental bases for school education and teaching reforms and the CNU High School is the first listed key high school and demonstration high school in Beijing.

The CNU is always accords great importance to the Party construction and ideological and political educational work. In recent years, the CNU was considered as the national and Beijing municipal “Outstanding University on Party Construction and Ideological and Political Educational Work” by the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee, Beijing Municipal Party Committee and Beijing Municipal Government. To add to it, the CNU has won the “Capital Outstanding Unit in Spiritual Civilization Construction”, “Outstanding Unit on Beijing Ideological and Political Educational Work” and other prizes.

In the future, CNU aims for creative and progressive strides towards being a special and excellent normal university.