On the afternoon of April 19, Dr. David Gregory, Vice-President (Academic) of the University of Regina, Canada, led a delegation to visit Chengdu University (CDU). Peng Xiaolin, Vice President of CDU met with the guests with gracious hospitality at the VIP meeting hall of the Academic Exchange Center.
Ms. Peng extended a warm welcome to the guests and introduced to them CDU's development history, school-running positioning, as well as integration and implementation of its talent strategy, characteristics strategy, and internationalization strategy in recent years and their results. She stated that as an application-oriented city university, CDU has made remarkable progress in the ESI's global top 1% disciplines, authoritative global world universities rankings, nature index, highly cited papers, student discipline competitions, and other fields in recent years. CDU and the University of Regina enjoy broad space and huge potential for cooperation. She hoped that the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding(MoU) between the two universities could bring about wider and higher-level cooperation in teacher/student exchanges, cooperative education, international scientific research, and other fields, and achieve more effective cooperation results.
Dr. Gregory sent gratitude for CDU's hospitality and mentioned that it was the first visit paid by a delegation of the University of Regina to China after the pandemic. He expressed the hope that the two universities can engage in two-way exchanges between teachers and students in fields such as sports, engineering, arts, management, and others, further strengthen their cooperation in scientific research and student training, jointly apply for high-level international cooperation programs, and promote high-quality academic and personnel exchanges between the two universities. He believed that the signing of the MoU will contribute to the development of both sides.
After the addresses, the two universities jointly signed the MoU for university partnership. According to the memorandum, the two sides will carry out comprehensive cooperation in such fields as scientific research, academic research, and teacher and student exchange.
After the meeting, the guests visited the Athletes’ Village for the 31st FISU Summer World University Games 2021 and the Hall for Student Affairs. Representatives of the Office of International Cooperation and Exchange, the School of Mechanical Engineering, the Business School, the School of Music and Dance, and the College of Physical Education attended the meeting.
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Founded in 1911 in Regina, the capital of Saskatchewan, Canada, the University of Regina is a prestigious public research university with a long history. The University offers undergraduate, postgraduate, and Ph.D. programs in the fields of humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, engineering technology, business, kinesiology, and so on. According to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2022, the University of Regina ranked 601-800th globally. The university is well recognized for its quality teaching and research, with distinctive specialties in the fields of education, engineering, sports science, ecosystems, and public health.
