On the afternoon of June 2, a delegation headed by Prof. Goi Bok Min, Vice President of Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Malaysia, paid a visit to our university. Chen Liqing, Vice President of AAU, met with the guests and presided over the cooperation symposium.
At the meeting, Chen Liqing extended a warm welcome to the UTAR delegation and introduced AAU’s history, flagship disciplines, national-level research platforms and achievements in international development. He noted that AAU has long committed itself to educational and agricultural cooperation across the RCEP region. Given the complementary disciplinary strengths of the two institutions, broad prospects exist for collaboration in joint talent cultivation, collaborative scientific research, reciprocal faculty and student exchanges, as well as mutual credit recognition and transfer.
Prof. Goi Bok Min expressed gratitude for the warm reception and briefed participants on UTAR’s institutional profile, academic programs, Global Education Articulation Programme and international development blueprint. As a prestigious non-profit comprehensive university in Malaysia, UTAR runs academic programmes spanning agriculture and forestry, economics and management, humanities, science and engineering, among other fields. Capitalizing on development opportunities brought by the RCEP framework, UTAR looks forward to launching key collaborative initiatives with our university covering joint training programmes, academic exchanges and scientific and technological cooperation, and extended an invitation for our university to conduct a reciprocal visit to Malaysia in due course.
Participants from both sides held in-depth discussions on topics including inter-university strategic cooperation, international development, talent training, academic communication and staff-student exchanges, reaching consensus on relevant matters. A Memorandum of Understanding on inter-institutional cooperation was signed on site, laying a solid foundation for in-depth future cooperation between the two universities.
The visit and signing ceremony further expand our university’s partnership network with higher education institutions within the RCEP region and enrich the connotation of its internationalized schooling. It bears great significance for deepening China-Malaysia exchanges and cooperation in agricultural science and education as well as advancing the high-quality international development of our university.
Following the symposium, the UTAR delegation toured the State Key Laboratory of Tea Germplasm Innovation and Resource Utilization and the National-Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Crop Stress-Resistant Breeding and Disaster Mitigation. During the on-site inspection, the group learned about our university’s research outputs in tea industry development, crop breeding and smart agriculture, and spoke highly of the research competence and distinctive developmental achievements of our agriculture and forestry-focused disciplines.
Person-in-charges from the Office of International Exchange and Cooperation, School of Life Sciences, School of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, School of Artificial Intelligence and School of Economics and Management, School of Humanities and Social Sciences attended the symposium.
