From March 20 to 21, Lee Seung-hoon, President of Sehan University, Liao Xuan, Dean of the School of International Education and Communication of this university, and Jeon Ae-sook, Dean of their Confucius Institute visited our university for communication and discussion on cooperation.
On the afternoon of March 20, President Lee Seung-hoon and other visitors arrived at the Yangxunqiao Campus and were warmly received by President Li Lu and Vice President Ye Shiping. They toured the new campus, and visited the library and the International Tea Culture Laboratory.
At the meeting, President Lee Seung-hoon thanked President Li Lu for his warm reception and expressed his honor to be the first overseas visiting group to visit our university after the epidemic. After watching the promotional video of Shuren University, he could not help feeling the vigorous development of Shuren University, which gave him both the cordial feeling of revisiting the familiar place and the feeling of freshness of witnessing the development and changes of Shuren. He also looked forward to cementing the friendship and deepening cooperation between both universities through this visit.
President Li Lu reviewed the 20-year history of friendly communication between our university and Sehan University, the achievements of these two universities on the aspects of exchange visits, faculty training, student exchange, academic exchange, and cooperative programs of the major of Korean, as well as our international exchange and cooperation activities related to South Korea, such as serving the G20 and receiving the dignitaries from South Korea. President Li introduced the development strategies of our university, such as taking discipline construction as the lead, strengthening the interdisciplinary education of medicine, engineering and information technology, and the construction of new medicine, and looked forward to deepening inter-university cooperative education programs, scientific research cooperation and teacher training in related fields.
On the morning of March 21, President Lee Seung-hoon and other visitors visited the Gongchenqiao Campus and attended the meeting on discussing the cooperation.
At first, Ye Shiping delivered a welcome speech on behalf of our university. He recalled the history that with the help of the Foreign Affairs Office of Zhejiang Education Department, our university cooperated and communicated and built a deep friendship with Sehan University, our first partner institution in Korea, and with South Korea. President Ye especially thanked Sehan University for its precious gift on the 35th anniversary of our university, and introduced the basic information, discipline construction, contests for students, and internationally cooperative education programs of our university. He pointed out, during the period of the “14th Five-Year Plan”, the university would focus on key fields such as medicine, engineering and information technology, environmental health, and modern service industry, and make more efforts in the internationalization of talent training, training of teaching staff, and scientific research. President Ye also hoped to enhance cooperation with Sehan University in the fields as mentioned above, and to give play to their respective advantages and strengths to substantially promote the educational, cultural, and academic exchange and cooperation between China and Korea.
President Lee Seung-hoon expressed his gratitude to Shuren for its profound friendship and said that, during the past 20 years since the establishment of friendship, there had been a lot of international exchange activities held by both universities, but cooperative achievements were not fruitful enough. The year 2024 will mark the 40th anniversary of the founding of Shuren University and the 30th anniversary of the founding of Sehan University. He hoped that both universities could work together towards the same educational goals, strengthen academic exchange and cooperation between teachers and students, and welcome the anniversaries with more outstanding achievements.
At the meeting, these two universities exchanged views on specific cooperative programs, including 3+1 or 2+2 dual-degree undergraduate programs, cooperative programs for undergraduates and master degree candidates, doctoral studies for teachers, student exchange programs, national and regional studies on education in China and Korea, and the study tours and cultural experience activities in the Confucius Institute.
