MOUs signed with Education Delegation from South Sudan

2014-11-25

On Nov. 25, Hon. Bol Makueng Yuol, Deputy Minister of Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, South Sudan, led a delegation comprising Mr. Monday Kumba, Counselor of Embassy of the Republic of South Sudan in Beijing and Vice Chancellors of five state universities visited our university. President Prof. Yuan Shouqi welcomed the delegation and signed MOUs respectively with the Ministry and five universities.

At the meeting, Prof. Yuan briefed our university to the delegation, including the history, disciplines and strength as well as great achievements in the field of scientific research, talent cultivation, esp. education of overseas students.

Hon. Bol Makueng Youl was very grateful for the warm welcome. He states that South Sudan had a long history of friendship with China although it was a newly-established country. It has gained support for oil exploration and hospital construction from China. He sincerely hoped that this visit would promote the cooperation between universities of China and South Sudan. Mr. Monday Kumba followed with a short introduction of diplomatic ties and educational cooperation between the two countries, supplemented by five chancellors with their universities’ information. All of them expressed their wishes to conduct specific cooperation in the field of staff training and exchange student’s scholarship under the framework of MOU.

Prof. Yuan suggested the visiting universities might resort to the government for diplomatic support via Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, in order to push forward such urgent issues as infrastructure construction and talent cultivation.

After the meeting, the delegation also visited our library and museum and held a discussion with 11 South Sudanese students studying here.

The visiting universities were University of Juba, Upper Nile University, University of Bahr el Ghazal, Rumbek University of Science and Technology and Dr. John Garang Memorial University of Science and Technology.