Sanae Oda, the executive director of the Tokyo Foundation, and her party visited Lanzhou University and communicated with the management committee of the Ryoichi Sasakawa scholarship in the school on July 7th.
Pan Baotian, the vice-president of Lanzhou University welcomes their visit and thanks Tokyo Foundation for its continued support and help. He points out that the Ryoichi Sasakawa scholarship is one of the most important scholarships for the graduate students of liberal arts in our school. The establishment of this scholarship greatly promotes the development of humanities and social science in our school, cultivates and brings up a large number of creative talents, and improves the comprehensive quality of the graduate students. By 2007, the Ryoichi Sasakawa scholarship has been established in our school for 25 years. We are willing toIt is our pleasure to help Tokyo Foundation to organizeundertake the activity of 25th anniversary. We believe that this activity can not only strengthen the exchangescommunication and cooperation between Lanzhou university and Tokyo Foundation, but also promote the further development of academic exchanges between China and Japan.
Sanae Oda expresses her thanks to our school for our willing to undertake the activity of 25th anniversary of the Ryoichi Sasakawa scholarship. With the aid of this opportunity, she hopes to set up an information platform for aid-receiving students and guide them to make contribution to the society. In addition, Sanae Oda also communicates with Pan Baotian on the operating details of the scholarship.
That afternoon, Sanae Oda and her party talk with the members of the management committee of this scholarship and some aid-receiving students. They exchange opinions widely withcommunicate each other on the follow-up project of the Ryoichi Sasakawa scholarship and the academic research of prize-winners.
(Translated by He Lixia; proofread by Huang Ping)
