区域国别学是交叉学科门类中新增的一级学科，既面临着时代赤字不断增加和人才培养质量未能满足需求的国际、国内挑战，也面临着百年未有之大变局背景下构建人类命运共同体理论与实践体系和中华民族伟大复兴战略全局中高质量发展所带来的巨大机遇。外语学科是区域国别学人才培养和科学研究不可替代的力量，其定位应该是依托多语种优势，培养国别通、区域通和领域通的跨学科高端人才，同时以国家战略为指引，以现实问题和学术问题为导向，系统地开展对对象国或者区域的人文社会科学、乃至自然科学的专项或综合研究，服务于中外人文交流和国家文化软实力建设。

The International and Regional Studies has been officially promoted to an important disciplinary position. For the Chinese foreign language community to engage therein, the studies mean great opportunities as well as challenges. The major challenges consist in the much more chaotic global situation and China’s urgent needs to become a problem-solving country. Together with the unprecedented challenges come unprecedented opportunities: the foreign language community is bound to play an unreplaceable role in International and Regional Studies. Then how shall we best use the opportunities to increase China’s soft power and serve the country’s international communication? I suggest that we consolidate our multi-lingual advantage, prioritize the production of advanced highly relevant professionals, and efficiently and systematically organize humanities and social science inquiries of foreign countries’ past and present and future, their politics, economy, law, and even natural sciences, i.e., their everything, everything academically or practically significant.