From October 4 to 10, President Xie Huaqing led a delegation to visit Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (SUAI), Saint Petersburg University of Management Technologies and Economics (UMTE), The State University of Humanities and Technology (GGTU), and Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics (MTUCI) in Russia, as well as L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University (ENU) in Kazakhstan. Conversations were held on topics including student mobility, faculty exchange, joint laboratory, joint training of Master's and doctoral students, and joint application for international projects.
During the visit to SUAI in Russia, Matyash Anatolyevich, Vice-Rector for Educational Activities, Nikolai Mayorov, Vice-Rector for Scientific and Technological Development, Nikolaeva Igorevna, Vice-Rector for Educational Work and Youth Policy and related SUAI representatives held in-depth talks with the delegation. Building on the previous cooperation between the two sides, consensus was reached on cooperation in faculty visits, joint application for international funds, joint doctoral training, joint laboratory construction, and co-hosting international conferences. The delegation toured the Robotics Laboratory, the Aviation Computer and Software Systems Laboratory, the regional collaborative workspace, and Laboratory of Unmanned Aircraft Systems. During the visit, Xie Huaqing said that professors and doctoral students in the relevant fields are welcome to visit and exchange at SSPU and to carry out long-term scientific research cooperation with the faculty teams.
During the visit to UMTE, Oleg Smeshko, UMTE Rector, Anna Rumyantseva, Vice-Rector for Research and International Affairs and related representatives attended the meeting. The two sides signed a Memorandum of Understanding, and discussed topics such as student exchange, faculty mobility, co-hosting conferences, and distance education, with special attention to the characteristics and cooperation prospects of the two universities' management disciplines. Xie Huaqing noted that this year marks the China-Russia Years of Education and welcomed more Russian universities to join SSPU in contributing to China-Russia educational cooperation. Oleg Smeshko expressed the hope of carrying out deeper and more substantive cooperation with SSPU in the future, just as SUAI does.
GGTU warmly welcomed the delegation with a fashion show featuring Russian ethnic characteristics. Rector Galina Skudareva received the delegation, and all members of the Academic Council attended the meeting. Xie Huaqing expressed gratitude for the university's warm welcome and commended the university's development achievements in recent years. Galina Skudareva highly affirmed the progress in cooperation, including the visit to SSPU as a member of Moscow education delegation this April and the signing of a strategic cooperation framework agreement. The two sides conducted in-depth discussions on the reform of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching models, cooperation in teaching and research projects, summer schools and short-term exchange programs, and reached further cooperation intentions. Subsequently, the delegation visited 17 teaching spaces, including the Underwater Robotics Technology Laboratory, the Biopharmaceutical Analysis Laboratory, and the Chinese Language and Chinese Culture Classroom.
During the visit to MTUCI, Rector Sergei Erokhin received the delegation. The two sides held talks on faculty and student exchange, joint scientific research, and joint doctoral training, and signed a Memorandum of Understanding at the Second Global Digital Forum.
During the visit to ENU in Kazakhstan, Sydykov Yerlan, Chairman of the Board-Rector, Taltenov Abzal, Vice-Rector for Strategic Development and Internationalization, and related representatives attended the meeting. Xie Huaqing gave a detailed introduction to SSPU's achievements in international joint education, as well as its successful experience in the reform of the industry-education integration talent training model and in the joint training of graduate students with enterprises, and noted that the two sides could hold special discussions on jointly building and sharing enterprise internship platforms. Sydykov Yerlan fully affirmed SSPU's achievements in talent training. As the university located in the birthplace of China's Belt and Road Initiative, Sydykov Yerlan introduced the cooperation and talent training between ENU and universities in China, and expressed the hope of carrying out in-depth cooperation with SSPU in the fields of information engineering, intelligent manufacturing, new materials, and artificial intelligence. The two sides agreed to launch as soon as possible the drafting and signing of an inter-university cooperation agreement covering student exchange, faculty mobility, joint training of Master's and doctoral students, joint laboratory, and joint application for international projects.
Heads and faculty from relevant schools and departments were in the delegation.
