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, memberof the Party Committee and Vice President of our university, presided over the symposium.

President Xiao Jianzhuang extended a warm welcome to the delegation fromHANU. He noted that during his visit to Vietnamese universities the previous week, heattend the 120th anniversary celebration ceremony of Vietnam National University, Hanoi(VNU),and visited alumni of theGuangxi 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 theGuangxi Nanning Yucai Schooland Guangxi University(GXU)’s active efforts to build a“Yucai SchoolinNew Era”and deepen education, science, technology, and talent cooperation with Vietnam.He emphasized that China and Vietnamshareconnected mountains and rivers,close cultural ties, havinga 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-studentsexchanges , and co-hosted forums. Together, they aim to cultivate more outstanding young talents to help build a higher-level and strategically significantChina-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 praisedourachievements 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 ofAIand 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 ofa Memorandum of Understandingon cooperationand 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 thatGXUfully implements the relatedworkdeploymentof the China-Vietnam Joint Statement, leverages the strengths of a comprehensive university, deepens construction in engineering, sciences,andhumanities&social sciences, and usesAIto empower education, industry, and social development, with a focus on promoting cross-border cooperation in smart agriculture. He hopedthat the two universities would expedite the renewal ofMemorandum of Understandingon cooperation, implement joint talent cultivation, academic forums on university governance, country-specificstudies, 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 NanningYucaiSchool, where they experienced the traditional“comrades and brothers”friendship between China and Vietnam while revisiting history.They alsoconductedan on-site inspectionat the Language Cognition Laboratory of our School of Foreign Languages andLiteratures andSchool 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 CooperationDepartment,Department of Vietnamese Studies, Department of Chinese Studies, and Department of Scientific Research, as well as relevant officials from GXU’sInstituteof Scientific Research,International Cooperation and ExchangeDepartment, School of Liberal Arts, and School of Foreign Languagesand Literatures.