Jiangxi Province administration of is interested in cooperation with ENU
A delegation from Jiangxi Province (China) headed by Hu Shizhong, Vice-Chairman of Jiangxi Provincial People's Congress Standing Committee, visited the L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University. The purpose of the visit is to develop cooperation between Jiangxi Province and Kazakhstan in the field of education.
ENU Rector Yerlan Sydykov met with the Chinese delegation. He briefly told the guests from China about the university, about its achievements in the international educational space and indicators in world rankings.
According to Ye.Sydykov, ENU is cooperating with 20 universities in China, the university has a Confucius Institute, Chinese Philology Department, and foreign specialists from China are involved in teaching Chinese. More than 100 students from China study in various majors, and about 10 students from Xi'an University of Foreign Languages and Shanghai University of Foreign Languages study under the academic mobility program.
"Currently, we are working with Nanjing Normal University as part of the implementation of a double-degree education program in such majors as Biology, Chemistry and Applied Chemistry, and cooperation with Nankai University is planned for master's degree programs in Economics, International Trade and Finance. Upon completion of these programs, graduates will receive an ENU diploma. We see a growing interest in learning Chinese, today Chinese is studied at the Faculty of International Relations and the Faculty of Philology,” ENU Rector said.
Yerlan Sydykov invited representatives of Jiangxi Province to cooperate within the framework of the academic mobility program and invite professors and teachers to work at ENU, as well as involve Chinese scientists in joint scientific work and publications.
The proposals of the ENU Rector were supported by Hu Shizhong, Vice-Chairman of Jiangxi Provincial People's Congress Standing Committee, expressing his willingness to cooperate.
“We pay great attention to education issues. There are 119 universities in our province with a population of 45 million people, the student rate is 57.7 percent. 47 universities have the right to accept international students. Now we have 87 international cooperation projects and have opened 14 Confucius institutes in different countries.
I believe that ENU and Jiangxi Province have great potential for cooperation in the field of education. Yujiang University, established in 1901, has 88 bachelor's degree programs in various fields. The University is known for its large-scale international collaborations and is recognized as one of the centers of Chinese language teaching. In this regard, one of the goals of today's visit to ENU is to establish professional ties and strengthen cooperation in the field of education. I am sure that your university also has a lot of experience in preparing students, so we need to actively share it,” Hu Shizhong concluded.
Following the meeting, a decision was made on close cooperation and further signing of memoranda between universities.