BIBS utilizes the Tai Chi diagram to show the core elements of Chinese and Western education models. The unity of knowing and doing and win-win cooperation in Chinese education, as well as the individualized development and innovation in Western education, are what makes BIBS most unique.

Under the IB curriculum framework, BIBS boldly incorporates the Chinese course into the IB curriculum, and adopts bilingual teaching with integration of Chinese and Western culture. All these allowed BIBS form a unique 'international bilingual' teaching feature.

At BIBS, the Chinese course attaches great importance to cultivating of reading ability and comprehension, developing a positive cultural understanding and identity, and combining the power of the humanities, of history and philosophy together with the depth of language and literature.