Ningbo-Taipei Education Cooperation & Exchange Conference held

Category: Ningbo News
Published: Tuesday, 27 November 2012 09:59

Recently, the 1st Ningbo-Taipei Education Cooperation & Exchange Conference, hosted by Ningbo Association of Education and co-sponsored by Taipei Culture & Education Exchange & Development Association, was held in Taipei Cosmos Hotel. Those who attended the forum include Zhang Minghua, Vice-mayor of Ningbo, Zhang leming, Deputy Secretary-general of Ningbo Municipal Government, Ding Tingyu, Vice-mayor of Taipei, Feng Qinghuang, Deputy Director of Taipei Education Bureau, Lin Zhaoxian, President of Taipei Culture & Education Exchange & Development Association, and Mao Baoqing, former Chairman of Ningbo Fellow Citizen Association in Taipei and honorary citizen of Ningbo. Zhang Minghua and Ding Tingyu delivered speeches for the exchange conference, and Shen Jianguang, Ningbo Municipal Education Bureau made a brief introduction of the education situation in Ningbo. Over 60 related people from universities and middle schools from both Ningbo and Taipei attended the conference.

 

It is believed that the conference has set up a platform for promoting the educational exchange and cooperation between Ningbo and Taipei (and other cities in Taiwan). The conference is fruitful with seven pairs of universities or colleges signing cooperation agreements, including Ningbo Engineering College and Taiwan Chung Hua University, Zhejiang Wanli College and Taiwan I-Shou University, Ningbo Institute of Education and Taipei Municipal University of Education, Ningbo Polytechnic and Taiwan Lunghwa University of Science and Technology, Zhejiang Textile and Fashion College and Taiwan Takming University of Science and Technology, Zhejiang Business Technology Institute and Taiwan Lunghwa University of Science and Technology, and Ningbo City College of Vocational Technology and Taiwan Chihlee Institute of Technology.

Moreover, such experts as Chen Juexiang, Executive President of Zhejiang Wanli College, Chen Rongzheng, Director of the Comprehensive Planning Office of Taiwan Academy for Education Research, and Li Taiwu, President of Ningbo City College of Vocational Technology delivered speeches on the theme of "education and modern urban construction", proposing suggestions for the educational development, exchange and cooperation of the two cities.