economics, legal studies, political science, Chinese language and literature, management science and engineering, business administration, statistics, and Marxist theory), 36 second-category Master programs (Foreign linguistics and applied linguistics, English language and literature, interpreting and translation studies, French language and literature, German language and literature, Russian language and literature, Spanish language and literature, Japanese language and culture, Asian-African language and literature, international trade, world economics, regional economics, enterprise management, accounting studies, international legal studies, civil and commercial law studies, international relations, arts and literature studies, comparative literature and world literature, ideological and political education studies, European studies, business English studies, contrastive cultural studies, foreign languages teaching technology and assessment, history of economy, financial studies, industrial economics, public finance studies, constitution and administrative law studies, theories of political science, Chinese classics, technical economy and management, social management, China-style Marxism, Cultural communication and media, English education), and 7 professional degree Master programs (business administration, translation and interpreting, law, teaching Chinese to speakers of other languages, international business, accounting, journalism and communication). Development of the Leading Disciplines The State-level Key Disciplines: Guangdong University of Foreign Studies initiated Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics. The main pioneers are Gui Shichun, Li Xiaoju, He Ziran, Qian Guanlian, and other professors. Since 1988, it has been chosen through public appraisal as the state-level key discipline. The Province-level Key Disciplines: In 2012, Foreign Language and Literature and six other disciplines were chosen as Guangdong province's key disciplines, including 1 top discipline (Foreign Languages and Literature), 3 superior disciplines (Applied Economics, Business Administration, and Legal Studies), and 3 special disciplines (Comparative Literature and World Literature, International Relations, and Political Theories) The Disciplines Given Priority to Develop in the Third Phase of Guangdong Provincial 211 Project: The first-category discipline Foreign Language and Literature and the secondary-category discipline Comparative Literature and World Literature were given priority to develop in the third phase of Guangdong Provincial 211 Project. In 2009, as a continuation of the research of foreign language and literature in the context of globalization, The Development of Center for Liberal Arts (Ren Wen Xue) ----On the Transformation of the Soul in Literature from the Comparative Cultural Perspective was authorized by the Department of Education and integrated into the third phase of Guangdong Provincial 211 Project. In 2012, the two research projects above were both checked and accepted by the experts commissioned by the Department of Education. 2011 Program (A program aims