Abstract: While Arabic teachers at Chinese universities have paid more attention to the skills training and knowledge transfer on foreign language teaching (FLT), they seldom contemplate the importance of foreign language education (FLE). As a result, the overall qualities of FL major students have not been satisfactory in terms of their humanistic literacy, cross-cultural communication competence and critical thinking ability. This paper suggests that Arabic instructions should be redirected from FLT to FLE in view of the new challenges that China faces in international interactions in the post COVID-19 epidemic world. In order to solve the difficulties faced by some Arabic majors, the paper proposes several ideas to reform the curriculums, textbooks, and teaching strategies.