​From December 5th to 9th, 2024, Tian Ye, Director of the Chinese Language Center, and Shi Xiaoman, Project Manager of the Admissions Office, conducted recruitment campaigns in Morocco. They hosted seminars at international schools in Casablanca and Rabat and signed a strategic cooperation agreement with ANISSE International School to provide study opportunities in China, fostering cultural exchange and talent development between the two nations.

​Headed by Hiroshi Sakuragi, Vice President of Osaka Metropolitan University, the Japanese delegation paid a visit to ECUST on December 9, 2024. Zhu Weihong, Vice President of ECUST, met with the Japanese guests, and both sides exchanged views on consolidating existing cooperation and deepening the partnership between the two universities.

Led by Bob Cryan, President of the University of Huddersfield, a delegation from the university, the British partner of ECUST’s Confucius Institute, paid a visit to ECUST on December 5, 2024. Xuan Fuzhen, President of ECUST, met with the British guests.

Headed by Wang Jun, Assistant Provost of the University of California, Riverside, and Kevin Vaughn, Dean of the UCR’s College of Continuing Education, the American delegation paid a visit to ECUST. Zhu Weihong, Vice President of ECUST, met with the guests and signed a memorandum of understanding on behalf ECUST.

Led by Zheng Wenning of the College of International Education, an ECUST delegation of 29 students participated in the “ECUST-Cambridge Joint Summer Program” at the University of Cambridge from July 25 to August 25, 2024. During the academic experience, the students were intellectually inspired and greatly charmed by the beauty of cultural exchanges, laying a solid foundation for their future development.

​The ECUST Choir delegation of 45 students won gold medals in the mixed group (under 25 years old) and folk song group competitions at the 8th Singapore International Chorus Festival from July 28 to August 1, 2024. The competition featured more than 70 choirs from over ten countries and regions, including Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia.

On July 18—19, the “Low-Carbon Technology and Green Development” Symposium, the first bilateral event between the University of Huddersfield and ECUST, was held in the UK. The event was co-organized by the Confucius Institute for Science and Technology Innovation and ECUST’s Office of International Cooperation and Exchange. Professor Alistair Sambell, Vice Chancellor of the University of Huddersfield, delivered opening remarks.

A six-member ECUST delegation, including Zhang Xianmei, Deputy Director of the Academic Affairs Office; Liu Tao, Vice Dean of the Graduate School; Rao Zhixiong, Deputy Director of the Student Affairs Office; and Huang Guangtuan, Vice Dean of the International Elite Engineering School, visited the headquarters of Arkema Group in Paris and École Supérieure de Chimie Physique Électronique de Lyon (CPE Lyon) in France. Consensus was reached on corporate involvement in curriculum development for the