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On November 2, a delegation led by Dato Lau Hieng Ho, Pro Vice Chancellor & CEO of Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus (Swinburne Sarawak), visited Beijing University of Agriculture (BUA). Wu Yan, Vice President of BUA, attended the meeting.

Wu Yan welcomed Dato Lau Hieng Ho and his delegation on behalf of the University. She introduced BUA's institutional positioning, distinctive disciplinary strengths, and its ongoing internationalization efforts. She noted that BUA is steadily advancing the BUA Global Strategic Partnership Program and expressed the hope that this exchange would serve as an opportunity for both universities to give full play to their respective strengths and broaden channels of cooperation in student exchanges, faculty exchange visits, and joint course development, thereby jointly raising the level of internationalization in talent cultivation.

Dato Lau Hieng Ho thanked BUA for its warm reception and introduced Swinburne Sarawak's current operations, academic strengths, and plans for internationalization. He expressed the hope that the two universities would strengthen communication and coordination, identify converging interests for cooperation, and promote multi-level educational exchanges so as to leverage complementary strengths and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results.

The two sides exchanged views on specific matters of cooperation, including inter-university cooperation models, joint student training, and academic and research exchanges. They explored potential directions for future collaboration, laying a foundation for further advancing cooperation between the two universities.