Prof. Jia Wenjian, president of the Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) led a delegation to City University of Macau (CityU) and received warm reception from Rector Jun Liu. The two universities signed cooperation agreement to conduct in-depth exchange in faculty-students exchange, talent cultivation, scientific research innovation, aiming to cultivate comprehensive and multi-level partnership and foster the coordinated development of higher education in Beijing and Macao.

During the meeting, Rector Jun Liu welcomed the delegation and introduced CityU’s educational characteristics of pursuing the core value of humanities and orienting toward interdisciplinary studies. He emphasized the development of empowering new humanities and social research through big data technologies. He stressed that the signing of the agreement marks a new phase in the collaboration between the two universities, and expressed his expectation that the two sides would leverage their respective strengths to carry out in-depth cooperation in fields such as linguistics and regional and country studies, jointly building a cross-regional academic hub.

President Jia expressed his gratitude for the warm reception and shared BFSU’s latest achievements in disciplinary development, teaching and research impact, and cultivation of international vision among faculty and students. He noted that BFSU and CityU share many common areas and strong complementary in humanities and social sciences fields such as Portuguese studies and regional- and country-specific studies. He noted a great cooperation potential between the two universities and hoped that the both sides can strengthen communication and exchanges.