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Malay Studies in Beijing Foreign Studies was started as an academic program in 1961, with Wu Zong Yu (who was since 1990 appointed as the university Malay Studies Professor) as the founder and the only lecturer at that time. It is currently taught in the Department of Malay Language under the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Since its inception, the department has produced hundreds of graduates whose career related with the fields of diplomatic, broadcasting, translation service, business and academic. The students intake is done once in every two years, but there was a case where the students were admitted yearly, like in 2005 and 2006. For decades, the four years degree course mainly concentrates on the Malay language proficiency which includes listening, speaking, reading and writing. Apart from that, courses on the history of Malaysia, the relationship between China and Malaysia and the introduction of Malay literature and culter are offered. With the fulfillment of the China-Malaysia Malay Studies Chair in 2008, some academic courses were introduced by the Chair Holder (see below). To ensure that the students grasp the Malay language, literature and culture better, they are sent to University of Malaya for one semester in a student exchange program and at the end of the program they participate in a homestay program in a Malay village.

In 1996, the Malaysian and China government agreed to establish the China Malay Studies Centre, a centre which focuses on the establishing of networking with Malay world countries in research, publication and other academic activities. With the establishment of the centre, Beijing Foreign Studies University has embarked on a wider scope of activities in the Malay studies field. An international conference on Malay studies was organized together with Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka Malaysia (the Malaysian Language Planning Agency) in 1996, followed by an international seminar on culture and thought of China and Malaysia in 2005, jointly organized by BFSU, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka and The Faculty of Islamic Studies, National University of Malaysia. In conjunction with the 35th. anniversary of diplomatic relationship between The People's Republic of China and Malaysia in 2009, BFSU organized an international conference on Malay studies, focused on the development of understanding between civilizations via Malay studies.

In 2007, the Malay Studies Chair in China was established by the Malaysian government and BFSU was chosen as the base of promoting Malay studies in China. A well-known and experienced Malay studies professor, Prof. Dr. Awang Sariyan was appointed by the Malaysian government to fulfill the post since January 2008. Some new courses were introduced to widen the scope and to upgrade the academic program, such as Sociolinguistics, Comparative Studies on Malaysian and Indonesian Variants of Malay, Malay grammar, Malay Culture, Language Etiquitte and Academic Writing. Masters program was incepted in 2009. Researches on contrastive analysis of Malay and Mandarin, comparative analysis between some aspects of Malay-Chinese culture and Islam in China were carried out. The publication of a series of Malay studies monographs were also started. Besides that, BFSU offers consultation and cooperation on the establisment of Malay studies program in other universities in China, such as in Guangxi Nationalities University in Nanning in 2008 and from time to time organizes intensive lectures to strengthen Malay studies program in other universities in China.