John Williams,the executive vice president and Dean of the Graduate School, Mike Keller, dean of the Food and Agriculture School, and McConachy, the head of the International Research Department of The University of Adelaide, Australia visited LZU during 15th and 16th November. An lizhe, The vice president of LZU, met with them in the VIP room of Science Museum. Relevant heads from School of International Cultural Exchange, School of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology and School of Life Sciences also presented in the meet.
An lizhe expressed warm welcome to John Williams and other people’s visit and introduced the history of LZU and the preponderant disciplines to them. He said, located in Lanzhou, the important juncture city of “The Belt and Road”, LZU enjoys new development opportunities and it would put the international exchange in the special place on the construction of “Double First-rate”. LZU attaches great importance to the exchange and cooperation with The University of Adelaide, and it is its hope that the two sides can strengthen the mutual exchange and visit of academicians and senior leaders based on the current cooperation and enhance the cooperation in other aspects like talent training, faculty communication and scientific research.
John Williams said that the president of The University of Adelaide valued cooperation and exchange with LZU and was willing to help LZU in the construction of “Double First-rate” as its international exchange partner. He also pointed that like LZU, the Australian government also paid great attention to the internalization of The University of Adelaide and hoped that the two universities can facilitate cooperation in the preponderant discipline like physics, chemistry, biology, agriculture, health, engineering and social science. He also sincerely invited LZU delegations to visit The University of Adelaide sometime in the futureto discuss and carry out the further cooperation strategies.
(Translated by Sun Lianyue; proofread by Yang Han)
