The exchange meeting
LNU News Center: “Although LNU is far away from Guangzhou, it is close to the world.”On the evening of November 3, the exchange meeting of the Student Overseas Programs sponsored by the Office of International Exchange and Cooperation (Office of Hong Kong, Macau, & Taiwan Affairs) took place in the Music Hall. Ms Lan Yanze, Vice president of LNU, was present and encouraged the students to broaden their horizon, go out bravely and become excellent people of international visions.
“The broader your horizons are, the farther away you go.” Ms Lan maintained that expanding international exchange and cooperation is the trend in the development of a university. The primary task of the Student Overseas Programs is to train excellent people of international horizons and improve education and teaching, the mission and responsibility of international exchange. The Student Overseas Programs have broadened the horizons of our students and improved their overall ability (including that to live independently) and their employment competitiveness. She also expressed her gratitude for the hard work on the part of the personnel of the OIEC, related sections, and schools.
Ms. Lan hoped to further expand the number and scale of projects, especially, by responding to the national initiative of “One Belt One Road”, to carry out more programs with Southeast Asian countries so that more students will have the opportunity to study abroad; to further improve the quality of the project so as to serve the students better by offering them access to higher-level training; that the OIEC (Office of Hong Kong, Macau &Taiwan Affairs ) will better communicate with the schools so that the work of the project is actually done; to ensure that students are well armed with various kinds of basic knowledge and a good command of the relevant language.
Zheng Zhijun, head of the OIEC (Office of Hong Kong, Macau &Taiwan Affairs ), showed the attendees the achievements of the project since 2013 and told them in detail how the project was carried out in 2017. He also mapped the strategic conception of the university’s future international cooperation and exchange, saying that the university will expand exchange and cooperation in teacher education with colleges and universities in Taiwan, cultural exchange and cooperation with those in Southeast Asia, and exchange and cooperation with those in Europe, America, and Australasia.
At the meeting, students of ten programs, such as the Program of Paid Social Practice in the US, Program of Summer Study and Exchange at University of Abertay Dundee, Program of Professional Internship at Belarusian National Sport University, Program of Exchange Students at Matsumoto University, Program of Practice at Secondary and Primary Schools in Thailand, reported on their study achievements. The student representatives said their intercultural exchange and study was an invaluable experience of cultural shock and transnational friendships. Wu Jiaxin, student representative of the 2017 Program of Paid Social Practice in the US, related her experience of working as a housekeeper and receiving the management’s eventual recognition for her ever-improved work. Chen Biru, the student representative of the Program of Paid Social Practice in Japan said that after experiencing the Japanese corporate culture well-known for its precision, she better understood the professional idea of “the custom is God”. “I have changed from a student to a professional,” she said. Xie Qiwen, the student representative of the Program of Practice at Secondary and Primary Schools in Thailand said that an internship could result in a complete change in one’s social role. Zhang Zishan, the student representative of the Program of Exchange at the Royal Institute of Technology, had the opinion that colleges and universities in Thailand offered plentiful programs, and, from elementary education to higher education, they used “happy teaching” and “encouraging teaching”.
Li Yue, director of the Department of Student Affairs Management of the Party Committee, director of the Student Affairs Section, and Admissions and Employment Section, Xiao Jianchun, deputy director of the OIEC, the party secretaries of all the schools, the counselors of some schools, the staff of the OIEC and several hundred students were present.
It is said that since 2013 the university has dispatched 1358 students tocountries and areas like the UK, the US, Belarus, Japan, South Korea, and Thailand, and Taiwan, to participate in programs of study, exchange, practice, and investigation. These programs are closed related to the university’s central work of teaching and training, so that they improve the students’ comprehensive ability and employment competitiveness, broaden their horizons, thereby improving the quality of our graduates.
Ms. Lan Yanze Addresses the Meeting
