GDUFS Signs Cooperation Agreement with UAD

Jan. 11th-On January 6th, President M. Hum Kasiyarno from the Universitas Ahmad Dahlan (UAD) in Yogyakarta Indonesia visited GDUFS. Those who accompanied him were the Director of the Research Center Professor Sabiran and Indonesia's Cultural Consul in Guangzhou Buchari Bakar. GDUFS President Zhong Weihe and Vice-President Fang Fanquan met with the guests on the North Campus.

President Zhong first extended his warm welcome to President Kasiyarno and his company. He recalled his visit to Indonesia last year and said the visit had left him with a deep impression. As Sino-Indonesian culture is both analogous and complementary, education in the two countries breeds cooperatation opportunities with each other in many areas.

President Zhong then shared about the international cooperation GDUFS has with other higher institutions around the world. Till now, GDUFS has signed cooperation agreements with more than 200 foreign higher institutions and has established practical collaborations with more than half of them. Formed in 1970, the Department of Indonesian---Malaysian has established collaborative relationships with many Indonesian colleges and universities.

Its construction and development are greatly indebted to the support of partner institutions in Indonesia and the Indonesian Consulate General in Guangzhou. President Zhong hopes that students at UAD will come to GDUFS to learn about Chinese culture and business knowledge and that the student at GDUFS will study  in Indonesia and have Chinese teaching internships in Indonesia, which would help to facilitate the cultural communication between the two countries.

President Zhong and President Kasiyarno signing agreement

President Kasiyarno expressed his gratitude for the warm welcome and hospitality he and his company received from GDUFS. Then, President Kasiyarno briefly introduced UAD. As one of the 154 universities under the second largest mass organization Muhammadyah UAD, a private university, ranked 44^th among 3140 private universities in Indonesia.

President Kasiyarno noted that since his taking office in 2007, he has dedicated in promoting the internationalization of UAD and has visited China many times. Currently, UAD has established a close collaboration with Guangxi University for Nationalities and Guangxi School of Medicine. He hopes that the signing of cooperation agreement with GDUFS will help inter-institutional collaboration in student exchange, cultural cooperation research and Chinese teaching and could lay the foundation for later specialty construction of Chinese or China Research Center.

Taking a group photo

President Zhong and President Kasiyarno signed a cooperation agreement between UAD and GDUFS after the meeting.

                                                  Source: GDUFS News Website