The cooperation memorandum signing ceremony of Sichuan University and New Silk Road Institute Prague was held in Jiang’an Campus of Sichuan University in the afternoon of February 23th. Jan Kohout, the Advisor to the President of the Czech Republic and the founder of New Silk Road Institute Prague, Xie Heping, academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering and President of Sichuan University, Prof. Yan Shijing, Vice President of Sichuan University, etc. attended the ceremony.
Xie Heping, on behalf of Sichuan University, extended warm welcome to Kohout and his party. He pointed out that Sichuan University is one of the oldest and largest Universities in China which aims at building world’s first-class university and pays high attention to international cooperation and exchange and cultivate talents with international competitiveness. It has built cooperation and research center with world’s famous universities like Cambridge University, Oxford University and become member of “One Belt and One Road” university strategic league. He hoped that the cooperation memorandum will help the two parties carry out extensive and in-depth research and jointly make contributions to “One Belt and One Road” construction.
Kohout thanked Sichuan University for the warm reception. He said that as an important think tank for Czech Government, New Silk Road Institute Prague is willing to develop cooperation relationship with Sichuan University. It will make full use of its advantage in central and eastern Europe, expand Sichuan University’s influence in Czech and other countries in central and eastern Europe, display Sichuan University’s research fruits on “One Belt and One Road” and the cooperation fruits by the publications and website of the institute and promote Sichuan University’s exchange and cooperation with universities in Czech.
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