On 21 April 2014, Mr.Nick Byrne, UK director of Confucius Institute for Business London, was invited by Tsinghua University’s School of Humanities to give a lecture on ‘Multilingualism and Language Provision’ in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature. This lecture was part of the THU-LSE Forum, and over 80 members of staff and students from the School of Humanities attended it. Mr. Nick Byrne explained multilingualism and its main features in large world cities from the perspective of pedagogy. Well received in Tsinghua, the lecture was chaired by Prof Shisheng Liu, vice dean of the School of Humanities and Chairman of the Foreign Languages and Literatures Department, Tsinghua University.