China-Ukraine Education Union

At 2:30 p.m. on May 19th, our school held a video conference with the Ukrainian National University of Life and Environmental Sciences in the conference room 715 of the Hongzheng Building. The University of Environmental Sciences jointly established the Confucius Institute (Chinese Language Teaching Center) and cooperated in running schools to discuss matters, and held a signing ceremony for cooperation intentions. President Professor Song Hongru, Vice President Professor Sun Hongsheng, Dr. Geng Haitian from the Russian Department of the School of Foreign Languages, leaders of the School of International Education and all faculty and staff attended the meeting, which was chaired by Wang Haiping, Dean of the School of International Education.

At the beginning of the meeting, President Song Hongru delivered a welcome speech. He first expressed his gratitude and best wishes to Professor Vasyl D. Shynkaruk, Vice President of Ukrainian National University of Life and Environmental Sciences who participated in the video signing meeting. Afterwards, President Song gave a detailed introduction to our school's history, school scale, faculty, disciplines, specialty majors, and international exchanges and cooperation, and emphasized that Ukraine was an early response to China's promotion of the "Belt and Road" initiative It is one of the countries in China. The cooperation between the two sides in cultural and educational exchanges has been going on for a long time. It is hoped that the schools of both sides will integrate their superior resources and rely on their academic and professional advantages to deepen their cooperation in the field of international education. Taking the Confucius Institute (Chinese Language Teaching Center) as an opportunity to strengthen mutual learning, mutual tolerance and interoperability, and actively build a new pattern of international cooperation that is more comprehensive, broader, multi-level, and more active. Subsequently, Professor Vasyl D. Shynkaruk, vice president of Ukrainian National University of Life and Environmental Sciences, fully affirmed the characteristics and development prospects of our school, and introduced the school history, professional construction, international exchanges and cooperation, etc. of Ukrainian National University of Life and Environmental Sciences. Basic overview; and said that in the current special period of the global fight against the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the two universities overcame the difficulties of the epidemic and held a video signing meeting to discuss cooperation plans, which is of great significance; they are willing to establish a good long-term cooperative relationship with China and fully assist China Complete the establishment of the Chinese teaching center.

During the meeting, the leaders of the two schools signed a school-level education cooperation agreement, and conducted friendly and enthusiastic exchanges on the joint establishment of the Confucius Institute (Chinese Language Teaching Center), Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools, student exchanges, and mutual visits for teacher training.

This meeting was held under the background of the 2021 "China·Langfang International Economic and Trade Fair" Reform and Development and International Cooperation Promotion Conference of Universities of Applied Technology. This "one-on-one" online signing and negotiation activity is one of the important achievements of our school's international cooperation and exchanges in the "China Langfang International Economic and Trade Fair" in 2021. It is also an opportunity for our school to make full use of this economic and trade fair to actively The substantive measures to promote international cooperation have built a broader cooperation platform for the development of our school's internationalization.

As a sub-venue of the Langfang International Economic and Trade Fair, this conference will help our school to promote the reform and development of applied technology universities and international cooperation. It is an important exploration for our school to actively carry out international cooperation and exchanges during the normalized epidemic prevention and control stage. The practical cooperation between the two universities has laid a good foundation, and it is of great significance to deepen the cooperation and humanities exchanges between our school and universities along the "Belt and Road", accelerate the pace of international development of our school, enhance our school's international reputation, and promote our school's construction of a first-class university. .

The National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine is located in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. It was founded in 1898. The school currently has 3 educational research institutions and 13 university departments. At present, there are more than 26,000 students, and more than 600 graduate students, doctoral students and postdoctoral students. The school has more than 2,600 faculty members, including about 300 science professors and doctors, and more than 1,000 associate professors and doctors. It is a research university with a high status in the fields of biotechnology, environmental protection, and food safety.