The Dalian Neusoft Institute of Information (NII), one of China’s biggest IT-specialized institutes, is adopting a new syllabus to guarantee high-quality development in the coming years, said Wen Tao, president of NII, at a news briefing for its 10th anniversary on Friday.

NII expects to improve eight qualities of students with the TOPCARES program: technical knowledge and reasoning, open-minded thinking and innovation, personal and professional skills, communication and teamwork, attitude and manner, responsibility, ethical values, and social value created by application and practice.

According to Wen, the institute will focus on the quality of education in the next decade. All the teachers are expected to be able to teach in both Chinese and another language. Cooperation with well-known companies, which has proven a great success in cultivating IT professionals, will be strengthened.

NII was established by Neusoft Corporation and Yida Group in 2000 in Dalian, a coastal city of Northeast China’s Liaoning province. It has over 14,000 students. More than 17,000 students have graduated from NII and devoted themselves to the IT industry.