IELF and SWPU Signing Cooperation Agreement

On March 18, IELF (International Education Leadership Foundation, USA) and SWPU signed a cooperation agreement on students studying abroad, teachers training, middle-level cadres training and graduate students overseas academic research and so on.

According to Prof. Mu Shuguang, the Director of International Affairs Office, SWPU, the cooperation is the first large-scale international cooperation program of SWPU in the new century and it accords with the policy of the open education at the Chinese Communist Party Representative Congress. It will play an important role in speeding up SWPU s internationalization.

Prior to this visit, SWPU sent six middle-level cadres to the United States with the help of the Foundation for a 10-day training there which mainly focused on learning the principles and philosophy of running schools, students management and so on. This has laid the foundation for the mutual cooperation.

According to Prof. Wang Ling, Vice-President, SWPU, the cooperation is just the first step to speed up the internationalization for the SWPU, and it will seek more opportunities to cooperate with other international educational institutions.

Prof. Zhao Jinzhou, Vice-President, SWPU, said SWPU will further strengthen the cooperation with overseas universities and research institutions, with the purpose of learning and absorbing advanced foreign principles and philosophy of running schools, education and management, and promoting the cooperation between SWPU and the high-level universities, well-known foundations and multinational high-levels companies in its "Twelfth Five-Year Plan". All these will enhance the school s international reputation and influence.

Professor Zhang Manjun, President of IELF, said to the student reporter, "This is my second visit to Southwest Petroleum University. We are pleased to cooperate with a school like SWPU, which has plentiful experience in university education. We will do our best to help SWPU to build an international exchanges and cooperation platform in order to speed up the opening of SWPU and its education internationalization."

After the signing ceremony, Professor Zhang Manjun presented the certificate to each member of the first group visiting USA for Training Program.