On December 1, the 2022 National IELTS Examinations Training Conference jointly organized by the National Education Examinations Authority and the British Council was held online, in which the work of IELTS test centers in 2022 was commended. 26 test centers nationwide won the "2022 National IELTS Excellent Test Center Award", and our computer-based IELTS test center was one of the two test centers in the southwest region that won this award. The computer-based IELTS test team of Chengdu University (CDU) attended the online conference.

Since the opening of the computer-based IELTS test center at CDU on April 28, 2022, we have successfully hosted 1,662 candidates and administered 80 computer-based tests (40 test days), including 45 IELTS tests and 35 IELTS tests for UKVI (IELTS for Visa and Immigration), as well as more than 3,580 inquiries and notification calls from candidates. With the high-quality equipment and people-oriented service of the test center, we have obtained positive feedback from the candidates, such as "It is an excellent experience to have the computer-based IELTS tests at CDU!" and "The experience of taking IELTS tests at CDU is extremely wonderful!" The test center's examination service team was praised as the "Guardian Team" by the examination organizers.

Affected by the pandemic and the irregular postponement or cancellation of IELTS test sessions nationwide, our test center put the candidates' needs first and insisted on the principle of "providing safe tests whenever possible", and did its best to release test places to relieve the urgent needs of students who needed IELTS test results to start their international studies during the pandemic. Under this severe situation, our test center, in accordance with the requirements of the National Education Examinations Authority and the British Council, formulated and implemented scientific and precise anti-pandemic measures, made every effort to guarantee standardized and safe examination services, and endeavored to provide candidates with the opportunity to take the tests, who all gave compliments to the high-quality equipment and people-oriented services of the test center.

CDU's computer-based IELTS test center is committed to developing into a model test center for language testing worldwide, in order to further promote the implementation of the "Construction Project of the Connotation of Internationalization at CDU" in the "Five-Year Action Plan for CDU's Internationalization Strategy", and to systematically promote the overall construction of the University's "Global Language Education and Testing Center". By building a cluster of test centers for HSK, IELTS, Linguaskill, the internet-based TOEFL (TOEFL iBT), and TOPIK, CDU will continue to plan multilingual programs and test sites, enhance the quality and efficiency improvement of multilingual teaching programs, expand global professionalism training for students, help the teachers, students and social candidates to have an important channel for international mobility, serve the national strategy of building the Chengdu-Chongqing twin-city economic circle, effectively improve regional services and advance the internationalization of the city.