Jiang Hongxin Attends the 2011 International Education Fair

After attending the International Education Fair held in Athens, Greece and the HIT Education Fair held in Ankara and Istanbul, Turkey, Vice-President Jiang Hongxin had returned Changsha on March 19th. Jiang was invited to take part in the fairs from March 9th to 18th as a member of Chinese Education Delegation organized by the China Scholarship Council (CSC).

During the exposition, Jiang paid special visits to The National and Capodistrian University of Athens in Greece and The Middle East Technical University in Turkey and was warmly welcomed by the presidents of those two universities.

Moreover, Jiang actively communicated and exchanged views with university presidents in Greece and Turkey and have reached cooperative agreement in International communication with SofiaUniversity in Bulgaria, AtilimUniversity in AnkaraTurkey, OkanUniversity in Istanbul. Jiang was also interviewed by China Central TV and Turkish media in Ankara. The report had positively promoted and enlarged the International influence of HNU.

On March 12th, Presidents Dialogue of Sino-Greek Universities co-hosted by CSC and Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) was held in Athens and Jiang attended this event, delivering a speech entitled Strategies for Internationalization of Chinese Local Universities and Cooperation Patterns for Sino-Greek Universities .

This trip marked the first participation of our university in the International Education Exposition organized by CSC. During the exposition, our university has successfully handed out more than 500 copies of our publicity materials and quite a lot of foreign friends came and consulted for the detailed information of our university. Many of them showed a strong desire to study in our university and filled our admission application forms.

Other members of the delegation include: 35 prestigious universities in China such as Beijing University, Zhejiang University, Fudan University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Nankai University, Tianjin University, Xi'An JiaoTong University, Dalian University of Technology, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences East China Normal University, South China University Of Technology, China Scholarship Council and staff from International Cooperation and Exchange Bureau of the Ministry of Education.

More than 200 universities and educational institutions from countries including the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus and China attended this International Education Exposition. Tang Jianwen, director of the Office of International Exchange and Cooperation of Hunan Normal University was in the delegation.

Translated by ZhangshuEdited by Yu Liya