On the afternoon of October 16, the opening ceremony of the 2020 Electronic Information Engineering (Sino-Foreign Cooperation Education Programme) from School of Electronic Information Engineering was held in the lecture hall of the Southeast Library. Shen Zonggen, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Vice President of our university, Pan Qiyong, Secretary of the Party Committee of the School of Electronic Information Engineering, Liu Yushen, Dean of the School of Electronic Information Engineering, Cai Wei, Dean of the School of Sino-American Education, Zhao Xia, Deputy Director of the International Cooperation and Exchange Office, Zhang Jingya, Project Leader, Ji Qing, head of the Comprehensive Section of the International Office, the class teacher of the 2020 Chinese-British class, as well as all 2020 Chinese-British telecommunications class students and their parents attended the opening ceremony. Mark Power, Chief Executive Officer and Provost of Liverpool John Moores University, Dr. Julia Wang, Director of International Department of Liverpool John Moores University, other faculty representatives, student representatives of Liverpool John Moores University, and Sean Shao, project leader of the Shanghai office attended the online opening ceremony. The opening ceremony was conducted over by Ma Yunsheng, deputy director (take charge) of the International Office of our university.

In his opening speech, Shen Zonggen gave a brief introduction to our university’s existing cooperation and exchanges with more than 80 universities in more than 20 countries and regions around the world, and introduced the Sino-British cooperative education project in the past three years. The results of exchanges and cooperation in the mutual communication of teaching quality evaluation and the regular conduct of review meetings are affirmed. He emphasized that the electronic information industry is a strategic, basic and leading pillar industry of the national economy. It plays a very important role in promoting social employment, stimulating economic growth, adjusting the industrial structure, transforming the mode of development, and maintaining national security; the electronic information engineering major of the United Kingdom is a strong alliance, which will surely cultivate outstanding international compound talents that meet the development needs of the international society. He encouraged the students of the 2020 Chinese-British class to broaden their horizons, improve their skills, and use their outstanding technological innovation capabilities and solid academic skills to continuously progress and improve in the mutual learning between China and the world, and become talents who carry on the past, build the future.

In his speech, Mark Power expressed regret that he was unable to attend the ceremony in person due to the epidemic. He introduced that John Moore University, founded in 1823 and the first mechanical engineering college in the UK, has a long history and rich teaching experience in training outstanding engineers. Students in the Sino-British class can not only use the excellent teaching resources and teaching platform of the Common Institute of Technology, but also can fully learn and use the rich teaching resources of Liverpool John Moores University. Especially in the senior year, they can go to the UK to study and study. This is a very rare experience. Students should seize this opportunity. He said that in the past three years of cooperation, the two universities have forged a profound friendship and achieved fruitful results. In the future, they will continue to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with Changshu Institute of Technology.

Professor Liu Yushen, Dr. Julia Wang, Deputy Director of Foreign Affairs Rebecca Bartlett of the Engineering Department of Liverpool John Moores University, John Marsland, Director of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Director of Teaching and Research Cliff Mayhew, and student representatives, representatives of freshmen and representatives of students’ parents also made speeches.

Although the epidemic blocked the offline communication between the two universities, the opening ceremony broke limitations of time and space, marking the substantial progress of the two universities’ cooperative education projects, and also fully demonstrated that the breadth and depth of our university’s international exchanges and cooperation has been achieved.