On October 27th, Prof. Alex Hughes, Vice President of University of Kent visited Tongji University, accompanied by heads of Laws, Economics and international affairs office. Prof. Dong Qi, Vice President of Tongji University, met with the delegation and introduced international cooperation, double degree programmes, social services, and Tongji s contribution to Expo. Meanwhile, Prof. Dong agreed to join the Global international university network with the other 9 world top Universities, as the only representative of universities in China.
The other 8 member universities of the network include Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, University of Montreal (Canada), Virginia Tech (US), University of Kent (UK), Ghent University (Belgium), Tecnologico de Monterrey (Mexico), University of Trento (Italy) and University of Darmstadt (Germany).