In April 1959, it was upgraded to the Beijing Broadcasting College (Chinese: 北京广播学院; pinyin: Běijīng Guǎngbō Xuéyuàn) approved by the State Council.[1] CUC's history dates back to March 3, 1954, when the first training class for broadcasting professionals was held by the then Central Radio Administration.[3] It once offered English, Spanish, French, Russian, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and other language courses.[4] There is a Center for Portuguese Studies (originally, Centro de Língua Portuguesa Dr. Stanley Ho) under a Cooperation Protocol between CUC, Camões Institute (Portugal) and IPOR (Macau) since 2005.[6][7] In September 2017, CUC was selected as one of 140 Double First-Class Construction universities approved by the Ministry of Education.