On the afternoon of May 12, the President of the University of East Asia, Mr. Kazuhiro Ugasawa, and the Director of the Institute of East Asian Cultures, Prof. Jun Jin and his party came to the university to exchange ideas, and signed an agreement on the 2+2 international joint cultivation project with the university.
Sun Rui, president of the college, and relevant persons in charge of the Department of Industry and Education Exchange, the Academic Affairs Department, and the College of Culture and Tourism attended the signing ceremony and had a discussion and exchange on deepening the cooperation in vocational education.
At the signing ceremony, Sun Rui welcomed the visit of the delegation from Japan East Asia University, made an introduction to the overall situation of the university, and reviewed the recent achievements of the university's international exchanges. He pointed out that this cooperation is a vivid practice of the internationalisation of vocational education in the school, and has injected new vitality into the development of humanistic exchanges and friendly relations between China and Japan. The school upholds the concept of running a school with an open mind and hopes to take the 2+2 international programme as a starting point to deepen the cooperation in the areas of curriculum construction, resource sharing, teacher and student exchanges, etc., so as to cultivate international talents with both technical skills and cross-cultural literacy.
Mr. Kazuhiro Ugasawa expressed his gratitude for the school's welcome, pointing out that your school, as a leader in vocational education, coincides with the University of East Asia's goal of cultivating talents with applied skills, and that the two schools' specialisations in the fields of art and design, culture and tourism, etc. are highly compatible, and he looked forward to laying a solid foundation for in-depth cooperation between the two sides through the implementation of the project, and to setting up more platforms for exchanges among Chinese and Japanese youths.
The two sides also discussed topics such as expanding co-operation majors, exploring the path to master's degree and the mechanism of academic exchange of teachers, and reached a preliminary intention of co-operation.
After the meeting, accompanied by Tong Xiaohui, director of the school's production and education exchanges, and Wang Min, vice president of the College of Culture and Tourism, the guests of the University of East Asia visited the school's weaving and embroidery techniques, non-legacy digital protection and inheritance of the key laboratories of the Sichuan Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism. The two sides around the Shu brocade and Japan's ‘Nishijin weaving’ and other traditional crafts of digital protection and inheritance to carry out in-depth exchanges. President Ugasawa said that the commonality of traditional weaving techniques between China and Japan provides a deep soil for cultural cooperation, and further synergistic exploration can be carried out in the future in the areas of training of non-heritage talents and technological innovation.
In the afternoon of that day, a delegation from the University of East Asia went to the school's Qionglai Industry and Education Park and held a series of cross-cultural lectures for Japanese language students in tourism. President Ugasawa shared the cultivation mode of international professional talents in the light of Japan's experience in the development of culture and tourism industry, and interacted with students on the topics of language learning, cross-cultural practice, etc. He encouraged students to learn Japanese well and become the messengers of Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges.
