Jiang Xiule, the Party Secretary of SNNU, leading a delegation, visited five universities in Korea and Japan from April 19th to 28th , 2010.
This visiting is to further strengthen the friendship between SNNU and the universities in Japan and Korea. It has also helped to accelerate the internationalization of SNNU and to broaden its communication and cooperation with universities in Northeast Asia.
The universities that have been visited are Nara University , Gifu University , and Soka University in Japan and Hanyang University and Kyungpook National University in Korea.
This visit has been very fruitful. The visit to Nara University has further increased the mutual understanding between not only the two universities but also the two cities and their people. Xian City and Nara City have long been friendship cities. They are both cities that were once ancient capitals. Nara City was heavily influenced by the culture of Tang Dynasty whose capital was then Chang an (i.e. Xian City). During the visit, the two universities have also signed some inter-university exchange agreements, involving teacher s exchange programs and student s co-education programs. The cooperation with Gifu University has also been initiated, starting from inter-department or inter-college programs, and steadily to university-level exchanges in the future. The College of Tourism and Environment at SNNU and the Center for Basin Circle Research at Gifu University have expressed their intentions for future cooperation.
At Soka University, the delegation received a ceremonious welcome in whichHideo Yamamoto, the university president, together with over one hundred teachers and students sang a song of sakura , extolling the Sino-Japan friendship and in memory of the Premier Zhou Enlai. In such a grand ceremony, Jiang Xiule, the Party Secretary of SNNU, was awarded a highest honorary medal. Jiang Xiule delivered a heart-warming speech. He highly praised the distinguished contribution by Ikeda Daisaku ( ) to Sino-Japan friendship, world peace, and cultural transmission and exchange. He also reviewed the cooperation and exchanges between the two universities in the past and the promising prospect for the future. Several cooperation and exchange agreements have been signed by the two universities.
SNNU has already established friendship with Hanyang University and Kyungpook National University in Korea. This visit has helped to enhance the existent cooperation and exchange programs and to develop and foster some new ones.
This visit to five universities in Japan and Korea has been a very beneficial one. In each university, the delegation has made every effort to strengthen and expand its exchange and cooperation programs. In addition to introducing the current situation of higher education in China as well as the development and construction achievements of SNNU, the delegation has also learned and exchanged some new conceptions and ideologies concerning teaching and education and university administration. (Trans: Wang Zhinan)
