ACC Secretary-General Met with Vice President Zhan Xinli of Xiamen University

On 22 April 2016, H.E. Mme. Yang Xiuping, Secretary-General of ASEAN-China Centre (ACC), met with Ms. Zhan Xinli, Vice President of Xiamen University.

Vice President Zhan Xinli said that Xiamen University had a long history of educational exchange with Southeast Asia countries including the cooperation of setting up Confucius Institutions and traditional Chinese medicine exchanges. The establishment of Xiamen University Malaysia Campus (XUMC) received great attention from the leaders of both China and Malaysia, given the fact that XUMC was the first overseas campus set up by a famous Chinese university and the first campus of a Chinese University in Malaysia. It was expected that the enrollment of the campus could reach 5000 in 2020. Xiamen University would like to strengthen cooperation with ACC attract more ASEAN Students and enhance ASEAN-China educational cooperation and talent nurturing. 

ACC Secretary-General appreciated Xiamen University’s efforts to deepen ASEAN-China educational cooperation and friendship. She briefed on ACC’s work and said that youth was the future of ASEAN-China relations, and education was one of the five areas of ACC. ACC had close connections with educational institutions and government educational departments of both China and ASEAN Member States and SEAMEO, and carried out exchange in vocational education, scientific research, language and culture training, as well as youth exchange. This year was designated as ASEAN-China Educational Exchange Year. ACC had and would carry out a variety of educational exchanges, and set up platforms for more youth exchange. ACC would like to provide assistances to promote cooperation between Xiamen University and ASEAN countries, so as to enhance ASEAN-China educational cooperation.