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ACC Secretary-General Met with Vice President Zhan Xinli of Xiamen University
Source: ASEAN-China Centre
Time: 2016-May-12 15:07
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On 22 April 2016, H.E. Mme. Yang Xiuping, Secretary-General of ASEAN-China Centre (ACC) met with Ms. Zhan Xinli, Vice President of Xiamen University.

 

Vice President Zhan Xinli said that Xiamen University had a long history of educational exchanges with Southeast Asia countries, especially on students and faculty exchanges, the cooperation of setting up Confucius Institutions and traditional Chinese medicine exchanges, etc. The establishment of Xiamen University Malaysia Campus (XUMC) received great attention from the leaders of both China and Malaysia, given the fact that XUMC was the first overseas campus set up by Chinese famous university and the first campus of Chinese University in Malaysia. It was expected that the enrollment of the campus could reach to 5000 in 2020. Xiamen University would like to strengthen cooperation with ACC, attracting more ASEAN Students and enhancing ASEAN-China educational cooperation and talent nurturing.

 

ACC Secretary-General appreciated Xiamen University for its efforts to deepen ASEAN-China educational cooperation and friendship. She briefed on ACC’s work and said that youth was the future of ASEAN-China relations, and education was one of the five key working areas of ACC. ACC had close connections with educational institutions and government educational departments of both China and ASEAN Member States and SEAMEO, and carried out exchanges on vocational education, scientific research, language and culture training, as well as youth exchanges. This year was designated as ASEAN-China Educational Exchange Year. ACC had and would carry out a variety of educational exchanges, and set up platforms for more youth exchanges. ACC would like to support and provide assistances to promote cooperation between Xiamen University and ASEAN countries, so as to enhance the ASEAN-China educational cooperation.

Editor:Danqing
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