Ms. Liu Yu is already familiar with the BSU team. This winter, at the site of SKDC "Khudozhestvenny" with the participation of students and teachers of the university, the consulate held a holiday for Chinese students in Irkutsk on the occasion of the meeting of spring. Today is an official visit to get acquainted with the university and confirm the intentions of comprehensive support for the university's initiatives aimed at developing partnerships between the two countries in the field of science and education.
"I am very grateful to you for your personal participation in all the events of the Consulate General of the People's Republic of China that we are holding in Irkutsk," Ms. Liu Yu addressed the rector of BSU Oleg Gribunov. - Thanks to the entire staff of the university for the kind attitude and support of the students of the PRC who are studying at the International Faculty of BSU.
Education is a bridge that connects the hearts of our peoples, and I would like to express my full support to you for your endeavors that expand educational programs, academic cooperation and research projects."
Ms. Liu Yu and consular officers Mr. Tan Defeng and Mr. Chen Zhaoyang got acquainted with educational and cultural information literature, authorship of scientists and linguists of the International Faculty of BSU, which is used in the educational process by Chinese students.
The guests visited the data analysis and artificial intelligence laboratory, the training content preparation studio, the BSU History Hall. Among the exhibits telling about the formation of the university, visitors got acquainted with an exhibition dedicated to literature about China - Russian and Chinese authors. In an honorable place - rare editions of the middle of the last century.
Summing up the meeting, BSU Rector Oleg Gribunov told Ms. General Consul about foreign partners of the university, of which 26 are universities and scientific organizations of the PRC.
"Our university has been actively cooperating with the PRC since the 1980s. In recent years, we have been increasingly interacting with our partners, and after the decision of the leaders of our countries, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, and the announcement of the cross Years of the formation of Russia and China, we received a new impetus and opportunities for joint work.
In the near future, we propose to develop and approve a roadmap for interaction for two years. We will be glad to see you, dear Mrs. Liu Yu, in the organizing committee of the International Scientific and Practical Conference "The Great Tea Way - an International Humanitarian Corridor: Historical Experience and a Look into the Future," which will be held within the walls of BSU at the end of August."