by Yi Tian
Translated by Wei Xutao; edited by Zhen Yanhua
Time: 2016-05-27 8:59:55 Click: 2921
From May 21 to 22, at the invitation of Hao Ping, Vice Minister of China’s MOE, Fang Wenbin, HUST’s Vice President, attended the Sino-Belarusian Presidential Forum and the 2nd Session of Sino-Belarusian ICC’s Educational Council held in Guangzhou on behalf of HUST. During these two days, Vice President Fang heard the reports given by Vice Minister Hao and B.A. Bogush, the first Vice Minister of Belarus’ MOE, on their educational councils’ working plan for 2016, and conveyed the heartfelt greetings from HUST’s President Li Dayong to the minister and Vice Minister of Belarus’ MOE as well as the presented delegates from eight Belarusian Universities.
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The attendees also included some other officials from China’s MOE, Provincial MOE of Guangdong and 10 other Chinese universities or colleges, who, together with Vice Minister Hao and Vice President Fang, extended positive discussions with Belarusian guests on cooperation in the field of higher education during the two days’ meeting.
The cooperation between HUST and Belarusian universities can be dated to December, 2005, when HUST and Belarusian State University signed the agreement to “found joint schools of postgraduates”. From then on, professors from Belarusian State University were invited every year to visit HUST and deliver lectures or carry on academic discussions during every year’s Harbin Economic & Trade Fair, and in 2007, the Joint School of Postgraduates for HUST and Belarusian State University was finally approved by China’s MOE. In 2011, a supplementary agreement was signed between HUST and Belarusian State University to exchange students, and since 2012, five excellent HUST undergraduates or postgraduates have been selected to have one-year study in Belarusian State University annually. In 2015, a memo was signed between HUST and Belarusian State University to establish joint labs for Carbon Nanomaterials Research & Application Education, and preliminary achievements have been made in the lab of HUST.
“Higher education assumes the responsibility for boosting the progress of society, which calls on more universities and colleges in both China and Belarus to cooperate more in talent cultivation and scientific study,” Vice President Fang concluded.
The scene of Sino-Belarusian PresidentialForum
Vice PresidentFang extending his statement on Sino-Belarusian PresidentialForum
