On October 16th, Zhou Fei, Vice Chair of Hefei University(HFU) Council, met with a delegation from Qashqadaryo Region, Uzbekistan.
Zhou Fei recalled his previous visit to Uzbekistan and introduced HFU’s history, talent cultivation modes, discipline layout, scientific research development, and achievements in international education. He noted, as a local applied university, HFU consistently adheres to its positioning of being “local, application-oriented and international”, promotes deep industry-education integration, cultivates high-quality applied talents for local needs and empower local industrial development. He stated, as China-Uzbekistan friendship continues to deepen and cooperation expands, the bilateral relationship has entered a new era of all-weather comprehensive strategic partnership. He expressed the expectation to strengthen cooperation with Uzbek universities in such fields as joint talent cultivation and collaborative scientific research. Leveraging Uzbekistan’s profound historical and cultural heritage and valuable resources, both sides could tap into cooperation potential in artificial intelligence, low-altitude economy, transportation infrastructure, cultural-tourism integration, thereby deepening people-to-people exchanges and practical cooperation.
Ilkhom Armanov, Advisor to the Governor of Kashkadarya Region for Digital Technology and Artificial Intelligence Development, elaborated on their policy advantages, higher education development plans and intentions for university-local cooperation, laying a solid foundation for further university-enterprise and inter-university collaboration. He noted, Qashqadaryo Region attaches great importance to youth talent development and has funded more than 800 students to complete their studies this year. He added, their local universities are committed to education-industrial integration, actively drawing on Germany’s dual education system, and engaging in international cooperation.
Representatives from universities of Qashqadaryo Region introduced their institutions, expressed gratitude for the warm reception, and highly recognized the complementarity and value of the cooperation between the two sides. They expressed the expectation for both sides to develop win-win cooperation and achieve substantive results through faculty exchanges, joint research, and student exchanges and further studies.
After the meeting, the delegation paid an on-site visit to HFU’s International College.
