On June 19, SZPT and Federation University Australia renewed the cooperation agreement for the Sino-foreign cooperation program in Mingde Building, Liuxiandong Campus. Duncan Bentley, President of Federation University Australia, Caroline Chong, Vice President of Federation University Australia, Xu Jianling, President of SZPT, and Li Yue, Vice President of SZPT, attended the signing ceremony.

Xu Jianling stated that Federation University Australia is one of the earliest international partners of SZPT, and the two sides have formally established a cooperative relationship as early as 1997. The Financial Services and Management program jointly organized by the two sides has enrolled more than 850 graduates since 2011, of whom 480 continued their study in Federation University Australia after graduation. The program is the largest Sino-foreign cooperation program of SZPT, and the education results have been highly recognized by students, parents and all sectors of society. He hoped that in the future, the two sides could leverage their respective advantages on the basis of the existing cooperation, continuously expand cooperation areas, innovate cooperation modes and enrich cooperation connotations to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results, and set a good example for promoting the development of China-Australia education cooperation.

Duncan Bentley expressed thanks to SZPT for the warm reception. He talked about how it was a great honor for Federation University Australia to have maintained a partnership with SZPT for more than 20 years. Over the past 12 years, the Financial Services and Management program has provided high-quality education and teaching to students, and trained a large number of outstanding young people with international perspectives. The two sides share many similarities in educational characteristics and development paths. It is hoped that the two sides can further deepen cooperation and expand cooperation areas to boost the development of vocational education in China and Australia.

After that, Wang Ying, Dean of School of Economics, introduced the latest situation and the next development plan of the joint Financial Services and Management program. In the presence of representatives from each side, Xu Jianling and Duncan Bentley renewed the cooperation agreement for the Sino-foreign cooperation program between the two sides.

Duncan Bentley and his delegation also attended the meeting of teachers and students from the Sino-foreign cooperation program of the School of Economics, and visited the training rooms of the School of Electronic and Communication Engineering, the School of Automotive and Transportation Engineering and the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering.

(Li Simin, International Office)