Impacted by the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) translation tools, several universities in China are eliminating or suspending admissions for foreign language-related departments. Some foreign language institutes are undergoing interdisciplinary transformation, adding majors like AI and big data, or cultivating 'composite talent' with both foreign language skills and professional expertise. According to a report by Yicai, China's Ministry of Education recently announced the registration and approval results for undergraduate majors for the 2025 academic year, with some provinces also releasing details on newly added and eliminated majors from last year. Among them, universities in Jiangsu province added 151 new undergraduate majors while eliminating 55, including Japanese and Korean. Mycos Research Institute, a Chinese higher education data research firm, compiled a list of suspended majors from 70 universities, involving 525 undergraduate programs. Language-related majors saw significant adjustments, with eight universities suspending their Japanese programs, and German and Translation programs also seeing a relatively high number of suspensions. The report notes that foreign language majors were once a focus of enrollment expansion, but with changes in the international communication environment and the rapid growth of AI translation tools, the talent cultivation model for traditional language majors has begun to transform. In 2023, the University of Science and Technology of China became the first '985 Project' university to eliminate its English major. In 2024, Beijing Language and Culture University stopped admissions for several master's programs in translation for less common languages like Russian, Spanish, and Japanese. Shanghai University of Finance and Economics has suspended 12 majors, including English, and East China Normal University announced the suspension of 24 majors, including German and Translation. The report quotes Ding Chang