On the morning of December 22, a video conference was held at Chinese Culture Classroom A104 between Wang Qingyuan, President of Chengdu University and James W. Dean, President of the University of New Hampshire. They made a review summary of the achievements and experience in cooperation between the two universities, exchanged their views and judgments on the latest situation and its solutions, and discussed deepening their cooperation in the future.

As Dean put it, since the Confucius Institute at UNH was jointly established by the two universities in 2010, remarkable achievements have been made through frequent exchanges and close cooperation between the two sides. He extends his especial thanks to Chengdu University for the condolence emails and pandemic prevention supplies it sent to the University of New Hampshire (UNH) during the pandemic of COVID-19, which encouraged UNH's teachers and students to actively fight the pandemic. He believes that although the current China-US relations are significantly complicated and severe, UNH is still willing to explore deeper and pragmatic exchange and cooperation projects with Chengdu University to promote the friendship between the two universities and the two countries.

Wang Qingyuan expressed his gratitude to UNH for showing concern for the teachers and students of Chengdu University during the pandemic. He specially mentioned that all the staff of the Confucius Institute at UNH cared about the motherland and made active efforts to raise funds and purchase supplies for the joint fight against the pandemic. According to him, UNH is an important partner of Chengdu University and their exchanges have achieved gratifying results. In the past five years, the Confucius Institute at UNH jointly established by the two universities has won the title of "Excellent Confucius Institutes of the Year" by the Confucius Institute Headquarters twice. This is a brilliant achievement this Confucius Institute has made with ten-year efforts. Although the development of Confucius Institutes around the world (especially in the United States) is stuck this year, through careful design and preparations and repeated communication and coordination, the two universities have reached unanimous agreement, according to which the Confucius Institute at UNH has been officially transferred from under the Confucius Institute Headquarters (Hanban) to under the Chinese International Education Foundation ("the Foundation"), and thus completed its transformation from the Chinese government-support model to the non-governmental and professional cooperative model that takes the two universities as the main body. Now it is one of the first batch of overseas Confucius Institutes that have completed such a transfer process. Wang Qingyuan also stressed, Chengdu University values the sound relationship and close cooperation with UNH. He hopes that the two universities can jointly build an international exchange center and an international education center for Chinese language, explore China-foreign cooperative education projects at the master level, and further deepen their all-round cooperation.