Authors: | Date：2010-08-14 10:18:02

From July 31st to August 3rd, a delegation comprised of 8 people led by Xiao Jiefu, President of National Chung Hsing University, which also included Vice-President Ye Xidong, Vice-President Huang Yongsheng, Chen Quanmu-Director of Research and Development Division, Zhuo Huiwan-Director of International Affairs, Mao Jiahong-President of College of Veterinary Medicine, Professor Jv Keyi from Research Institute of International Affairs, and Xiao Youzhen-Secretary of International Affairs visited Northwest A&F University. This visit was an unprecedented high-level and large-scale visit by the colleges and universities of Taiwan by far.

President Sun Wuxue, Executive Vice-Secretary Wang Wanzhong and Vice-President Hou Xi met with the delegation and deliberated over strengthening intercollegiate cooperation and exchange. He Rui, Vice-President of Taiwan Affairs Office, The People’s Government of Shaanxi Province met with the delegation and entertained all the distinguished guests on behalf of the government. He Rui expressed that Northwest A&F University, as an “Identity Card” of Shaanxi Province, had been making great contributions to the agricultural development of Shaanxi Province, even the whole nation. He expected the two sides would wider cooperative fields and draw on their respective strengths, so as to bring about a new situation for the agricultural cooperation and exchange across the straits.

On the morning of August 2nd, President Sun Wuxue met with the delegation of President Xiao Jiefu in International Cooperation and Exchange Center of A&F, gave the delegation a warm welcome, and then introduced the history and development of Yangling and Northwest A&F University. President Sun Wuxue pointed out that, with profound history origin, pretty wide cooperative fields and prospects, the sides were expected to strengthen cooperation and exchange in academic researches and student cultivation and so like. And also he welcomed teachers and students from National Chung Hsing University to visit A&F and further their study, so did teachers and students of A&F. Yangling, as the only one national Agricultural Hi-tech Industries Demonstration Zone in Chinese mainland, possessed wonderful geographic environment, policies advantage and surely a bright future. It welcomed invests from National Chung Hsing University as well as any other industry in Taiwan, so as to promote the transformation of research results and make greater contributions to the development of Chinese agricultural.

National Chung Hsing University attached much importance to the combination of knowledge innovation and industries, and hoped to spur the industrial development via knowledge innovation; President Xiao Jiefu was quoted as saying. Equipped with the best image inspection technology, food safety curriculum vitae and so like, Innovation Incubation Center of National Chung Hsing University took first consecutively in Taiwan. He also said, with Hou Ji’s home village as its location, profound agricultural civilization and excellent scientific and research team as well as research basis, Northwest A&F University has a potential to cooperate with National Chung Hsing University. He hoped that the two sides could strengthen the cooperative relationship in academic exchange and student cultivation etc. Also he gave his heartfelt thanks to A&F for inviting over 120 teachers and students in consecutive 2 years to host the “Chinese Agrarian Cultural Origin Camp”, and invited sincerely the teachers and students of A&F to visit and conduct exchange activities in National Chung Hsing University.
For most members of the delegation, it was their first visit in Shaanxi Province. President pointed out that Xi’an was an amazing city with a profound historic culture, and only after visiting Xi’an, he really realized he had been mainland and begun to learn mainland ever since. He was quite surprising to witness the rapid development of mainland and improvement of people’s and especially felt honored to visit the home village of Mr. Yu Youren.

During the visit, the delegation also visited Memorial Hall of Wang Zhipeng, who was a schoolfellow of A&F. He once taught in A&F and later moved to Taiwan, and he also was the former President of National Chung Hsing University. The delegation take group photos to mark the occasion in front of the Memorial Hall sigh with feeling that they were a root-seeking tour. Seeing the school motto of A&F “honesty, austerity, bravery, stamina” as well as the “College of Agriculture” inscribed by Yu Youren and his personal portrait in School History Room of A&F, the members of the delegation said the two universities shared much similarities no matter in historic culture or in school motto, and hoped to strengthen friendship and establish closer cooperative relationship with A&F later.

                  

                  

                 

                

               

               

Translated by: Yu Huiqing

Proofread by: Yang Xiaofeng

Edited by: Yang Yaorong