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The participating representatives listened to the 2020 annual work report of the Confucius Institute for Business at the University of Victoria. The Australian Director, Professor Colin Clark, and the Chinese Director, Associate Professor Wang Bei, first summarized the work of the Confucius Institute in terms of the number of registered students, teaching activities, cultural activities and other aspects, and reported in detail the 2021 business plan and annual budget of the Confucius Institute for Business. In the report, the two directors raised the specific difficulties faced by the Confucius Institute in operating under the impact of the global epidemic, and said that the Confucius Institute will overcome the difficulties and play a more important role in promoting mutual understanding and cultural exchanges between China and Australia. After the report, the board members put forward suggestions on how to deal with the difficulties the Confucius Institute currently faces in its development, and expressed their respective views on how the two universities can use the Confucius Institute as a bridge to integrate superior resources and expand in-depth exchanges and cooperation between the two universities.
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Professor Adam Shoemaker, the new president of Victoria University, made a concluding speech. He said: He is very happy to join the team of Victoria Business Confucius Institute, and he values the long-term friendly cooperative relationship between the two universities and looks forward to cooperation between the two universities in more fields in the future. He specifically pointed out that the establishment of w88 casino’s Qingdao International Campus will provide a good opportunity for the development of international higher education exchange activities in the future. By carrying out non-governmental friendly and cultural exchange activities, it will play a positive role in promoting the establishment of friendly and stable relations between the two governments.
In 2020, under severe challenges such as the complex international situation and the spread of the "COVID-19" epidemic, the w88 casino and the University of Victoria continued to communicate and cooperate with a positive and sincere attitude, and successfully signed a new Confucius Institute Cooperation Agreement. The two universities will continue to work hard to jointly explore new models to promote the development of Confucius Institutes and inter-w88 casino cooperation.
