On May 21, a delegation led by Pham Ngoc Thach, Secretary of the Party Committee of Hanoi University, Vietnam (HANU), visited our university. Xiao Jianzhuang, President of Guangxi University, met with the delegation. Liang Enwei, member of the Party Committee and Vice President of our university, presided over the symposium.

President Xiao Jianzhuang extended a warm welcome to the delegation from HANU. He noted that during his visit to Vietnamese universities the previous week, he attend the 120th anniversary celebration ceremony of Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU), and visited alumni of the Guangxi Nanning Yucai School (Vietnam Central School Zone), during which he deeply felt the enduring traditional friendship between China and Vietnam. He introduced the history of the Guangxi Nanning Yucai School and Guangxi University (GXU)’s active efforts to build a “Yucai School in New Era” and deepen education, science, technology, and talent cooperation with Vietnam. He emphasized that China and Vietnam share connected mountains and rivers, close cultural ties, having a strong foundation and broad prospects for educational exchange and cooperation. He expressed hope that this visit would serve as an opportunity to continuously strengthen the foundation of cooperation between the two universities, focus on key areas such as artificial intelligence (AI) and “language + specialized talent” training, and expand projects including joint scientific research, faculty-students exchanges , and co-hosted forums. Together, they aim to cultivate more outstanding young talents to help build a higher-level and strategically significant China-Vietnam community with a shared future, contributing to the construction of the China-ASEAN education community.

Secretary Pham Ngoc Thach expressed gratitude for GXU’s warm reception and praised our achievements in higher education development and educational exchanges and cooperation with Vietnam. He noted that HANU, as a top-tier language-focused university in Vietnam, has distinctive strengths in multilingual talent cultivation and international exchanges. Currently, Vietnam has a strong demand for “Chinese + specialized” inter-disciplinary talents in areas such as high-speed rail and cross-border trade, especially for the Lang Son–Hanoi–Haiphong high-speed railway project, which requires a large number of Chinese language professionals. He hopes the two universities will deepen cooperation in language education, exchange experts for lectures and teaching, and expand joint training programs such as student exchanges and degree studies. He also emphasized following the development wave of AI and enhancing mutual learning in areas such as Party-building-led university governance and smart education applications. He endorsed the “Five-One” cooperation model proposed by GXU and expressed full commitment to advancing the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation and the implementation of various cooperation projects for tangible outcomes.

Vice President Liang Enwei introduced our university’s history, academic strengths, achievements in internationalization, and cooperation layout with ASEAN. He stated that GXU fully implements the related work deployment of the China-Vietnam Joint Statement, leverages the strengths of a comprehensive university, deepens construction in engineering, sciences, and humanities & social sciences, and uses AI to empower education, industry, and social development, with a focus on promoting cross-border cooperation in smart agriculture. He hoped that the two universities would expedite the renewal of Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation, implement joint talent cultivation, academic forums on university governance, country-specific studies, and other cooperation projects, and expand deeper scientific collaboration on the basis of language and cultural exchanges, achieving complementary advantages and mutual benefits.

Before the symposium, the delegation visited the former site of the Guangxi Nanning Yucai School, where they experienced the traditional “comrades and brothers” friendship between China and Vietnam while revisiting history. They also conducted an on-site inspection at the Language Cognition Laboratory of our School of Foreign Languages and Literatures and School of Liberal Arts, examining language teaching and research platform construction, and highly praised our university’s language discipline construction and international talent training model.

Attending the symposium were representatives from HANU’s International Cooperation Department, Department of Vietnamese Studies, Department of Chinese Studies, and Department of Scientific Research, as well as relevant officials from GXU’s Institute of Scientific Research, International Cooperation and Exchange Department, School of Liberal Arts, and School of Foreign Languages and Literatures.