On November 11-14, 2019 an international external review of two study programmes "English Language" and "Russian Language" was held at Heilongjiang University. The procedure was jointly conducted with the Higher Education Evaluation Centre of the Ministry of Education, HEEC (China). Each review panel consisted of six Chinese and two Russian experts, representatives of leading Russian universities (Moscow City University, People’s Friendship University of Russia, Moscow State Linguistic University, Linguistics University of Nizhny Novgorod).