Ambassador Luo Zhaohui met at the embassy with the President and Vice-Chancellor of University of Regina Dr. Vianne Timmons. Minister-Counsellor (Education) Yang Xinyu and Counsellor Hong Yingchun were present the meeting.
Ambassador Luo welcomed Dr. Vianne Timmons to the embassy and expressed his appreciation of the University of Regina's fruitful education cooperation with China. He briefed the president on the latest developments of China-Canada relations, hoping the University of Regina will expand education cooperation with its Chinese counterparts. The ambassador also indicated that the Chinese Embassy will continue to facilitate such cooperation.
Dr. Timmons updated the Chinese ambassador on the progress of her university's education cooperation with China over the past 34 years, such as the training of teachers and the opening of the Confucius Institute, and on the university's planning and strategy for education exchanges with Chinese counterparts.
The ambassador and the president also exchanged views at length on post-graduate programmes, two-way interflow of teachers and students between the two sides, Chinese language promotion in the world, and Sino-Canadian university exchange mechanism.