From June 21 to 22, Sergey Mikushev, Vice Rector of St. Petersburg State University (SPbU), led a delegation to visit Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT). Han Jiecai, President of HIT, met with the delegation. Shuai Yong, Vice President of HIT, and Valeriya Malomuzh, Deputy Vice Rector for International Affairs of SPbU, attended the meeting.
Meeting Scene
Han Jiecai stated that SPbU is Russia’s oldest top comprehensive university, home to numerous Nobel laureates and world-renowned scientific masters. As one of China’s earliest universities to carry out cooperation with Russian higher education institutions, HIT boasts profound cooperative ties with Russia’s academia. The smooth graduation of the first cohort of jointly trained undergraduate students of the two universities fully demonstrates the outstanding outcomes of our joint talent cultivation model. He expressed the hope that both universities would shoulder the new mission of Sino-Russian educational cooperation, foster a multi-dimensional new framework for collaboration, expand diverse partnerships covering research commercialization, youth scholar exchanges, culture, sports and arts, jointly build a benchmark for Sino-Russian scientific and educational cooperation, and contribute greater strength to deepening the China-Russia Comprehensive Strategic Partnership of Coordination for a New Era.
Sergey Mikushev noted that HIT features prominent disciplinary strengths and a complete talent cultivation system, playing a vital role in advancing China-Russia cooperation. SPbU attaches great importance to bilateral collaboration and dispatches outstanding faculty to be stationed in Harbin to participate in teaching in depth. The first cohort of joint graduates possess both professional competence and cross-cultural communication capabilities, and the school-running achievements fully embody the value of our collaborative talent training. Looking ahead, SPbU will fully leverage its resources including faculty and student pools. It expects both sides to deepen joint research, continuously improve the integrated undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral training mechanism, and consolidate the foundation of friendship between the two countries through long-term educational collaboration.
During the visit, Sergey Mikushev and his entourage held panel discussions with the Graduate School and other departments, exchanging in-depth views on high-quality development of the China-Russia Institute of Excellent Engineers and The China-Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Doctoral Training Innovation Center.
Faculty representatives from SPbU, as well as representatives of the HIT International Cooperation Division, Undergraduate School, Graduate School, School of Mathematics, School of Physics, School of Management, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, and Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine attended the meeting.
