"Chinese Bridge" Winter Camp Starts at Zhejiang University

Jan. 4, 2010

On January 2, 2010, an undergraduate student delegation from well-known American universities consisting of 53 faculty members and students from Cornell University, and 30 from San Jos State University (SJSU) visited Zhejiang University to start a 14-day Chinese Bridge Winter Camp for Chinese language study and cultural exchange. This is the first large-scale foreign undergraduate delegation visiting Zhejiang University in the New Year.

The delegation is a part of the planned activities initiated by State Councilor Yandong Liu, where undergraduate students from well-known American university visit China. Other prestigous American universities invited by the program include Yale University, the State University of New York (SUNY), and Georgetown University and so on. On December 28, 2009, 408 American students gathered in Pekin and visited the Imperial Palace, Great Wall, Pekin University and Tsinghua University. After five days' staying in Pekin, they visited Nanjing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Sichuan.