On the morning of May 28th, Professor Paul Seawright, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Ulster, visited our school with Jin Zibo, Director of the East Asia Program of the International Exchange and Cooperation Office. Vice President Liu Yufang and Wu Wanxiong received the delegation warmly.

During the meeting, Vice President Liu Yufang reviewed his delegation's visit to Ulster University in mid-May this year and extended a warm welcome to Professor Paul Seawright and his delegation. He said that he was deeply impressed by the experience during his visit, and the cooperation talks on personnel training, teachers' visits and academic exchanges had yielded fruitful results. Our school attached great importance to the establishment of partnership with Ulster University and hoped that both sides could make joint efforts to actively promote the implementation of cooperation.

Vice President Wu Wanxiong pointed out that our school was in rapid development, and the cooperation agreement with Ulster University was very memorable since it was our first cooperation agreement with British universities. He hoped that after the signing of agreement, the two sides could work together and effectively carry out substantive cooperation programs in order to provide a good path for personnel training, build the platform for teachers' communication and cooperation of academic research.

At the signing ceremony, Professor Jiang Ying, member of the Party Committee and Director of Academic Affairs (concurrently), and Professor Paul Seawright signed the memorandum of understanding on behalf of both sides, marking the formal establishment of friendly and cooperative relationship between the two universities.

In the interactive session, Professor Paul Seawright introduced the teaching, research, curriculum and application of Ulster University and the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and answered specific questions raised by teachers and students. More than 20 teachers and students from the Academic Affairs Office, Foreign Affairs Office and representatives from various departments participated in the session.

(Party and Government Office (Foreign Affairs Branch))