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During November 17-23, a BUA team headed by Zhang Deqiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Party committee and Vice President of BUA, paid visits to Lincoln University and AgResearch in New Zealand and the University of Western Australia and Edith Cowan University in Australia at their invitation. The team had in-depth exchanges with their counterparts on scaling up international cooperation. This move is part of the efforts to steadily advance “BUA Global Strategic Partnership Program” and accelerate the building of BUA towards a domestically first-class and internationally renowned high-level applied university with urban agriculture and forestry characteristics.

During the visits, the team introduced BUA’s profile, history, educational characteristics, as well as significant headway achieved in discipline building, talent cultivation and scientific research in recent years to the universities and institutions. Both sides held discussions regarding the joint cultivation of students, deepening of Sino-foreign cooperative educational programs and teacher and student exchanges, and reaching consensus on how to broaden the areas of cooperation and leverage each other’s strengths.

The team visited the Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Faculty of Environment, Society and Design of Lincoln University, the Public Platform Laboratory of Lincoln Research Center and Harmful Organism Control Research Center of AgResearch, the School of Agriculture and Environment of the University of Western Australia, and the School of Science and the School of Medical and Health Sciences of Edith Cowan University. They were also shown around the laboratories and practical training bases of relevant disciplines, and held a talk with the teachers of BUA’s College of Food Science and Engineering who were sent to Lincoln University as exchange scholars.

The team inked cooperative agreements with AgResearch and the University of Western Australia, with the aim to expand cooperation in relevant areas.

Also on the visiting team were Shang Qiaoxia, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Dean of the College of Bioscience and Resources Environment, as well as Party Committee Secretary Jin Xiaoxi and Professor Li Demei of the College of Food Science and Engineering.