From August 3 to 7, 2005, the Eighth China-ASEAN Education Cooperation Week (CAECW), co-hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, the Ministry of Education of China and the Government of Guizhou Province and taking “Learning from each other for the well-being of the future” as the theme, was held successfully in Jinyang Eco-conference Center, Guiyang.
The Party committees and the administrative authorities of our college attached great importance to all activities in the conference and set up a work leading group on CAECW. In order to fulfill our tasks during the conference, school leaders—Yang Zhu, the President, Teng Hong and Liu Wen, the Vice Presidents—had chaired many special meeting on CAECW, inspected physically the conference site arrangement as well as coordinated and solved problems for various functional departments and work groups on the spot.
I. Coordinate carefully for the project “Advanced personnel training course on marine management and ocean economy”.
This is a cooperation year in marine for China-ASEAN. Being one of the series of China-ASEAN marine cooperation in CAECW, the project “Advanced personnel training course on marine management and ocean economy” has been sponsored mainly by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China and the Ministry of Education of China with “Asian regional special funds”. This project, on the subject of marine management and ocean economy and by conducting marine training courses to ASEAN, aims at exchanging and cooperating closely with involved institutions both in ASEAN and Asia, as well as in the mean time, reaching a consensus and improving the cooperation and development in marine economy. From Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, South Korea and Pakistan, 18 students participate in the training course. It mainly includes: the construction and development of marine silk road in the 21st century, the introduction to the Marine environment protection system in United Nations, the development of Chinese marine economy and international cooperation, the analysis of China's ocean economic development pattern and strategic aim, ocean environment and resources protection, the relation between Chinese culture and a harmonious Asia, and the theory and practice of traditional Chinese medicine.
II. Coordinate well for the project “China-ASEAN marine legal policies and management forum”.
On August 4, “China-ASEAN marine legal policies and management forum”, one of the major projects in the 8thCAECW, was hold successfully. It attracted more than 40 delegates from Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Singapore, South Korea, Tanzania and China, and 18 students in “Advanced personnel training course on marine management and ocean economy”. Delegates discussed thoroughly on three topics—“China-ASEAN Marine Cooperation in the One Belt and One Road initiative”, “China-ASEAN Regional Marine Cooperation” and “China-ASEAN Ocean Environment Protection and Marine Disaster Prevention Cooperation”—and achieved fruitful results.
At the opening ceremony, Vice President of Ocean University of China Li Huajun, Cambodian State Secretary of Youth Education and Sports Ministry Pit Cham Nan and Vice President of Guiyang College of Traditional Chinese Medicine Liu Wen delivered the speeches. During the forum, specific reports were conducted by 15 experts, including the former manager of the United Nations’ environment program“UNDP/GEF Yellow Sea Large Marine Ecosystem Project” Jiang Yihang, Institute Director of Vietnam Marine Research Institute of Science and Technology Vo Si Tuan, Chairman of Thailand Marine Science Association ThamasakYeemin, Executive Secretary of Indonesia Marine Affairs and Personnel, Science & Technology and Culture Affairs Department ElviWijayanti, Indonesian Navy Captain KresnoBuntoro, President of Thailand Chulalongkorn University of Transportation ChackritDuangphastra, Dean of International College of Koryo University ChungSuh Yong, a senior researcher at Korea Institute of Marine Science and Technology LeeChangyoul, a senior researcher of the International Law Center of Singapore National University HaoDuyPhan and other well-known scholars and marine affairs senior managers.
III. Present actively school characteristics and look for means of exchange and cooperation from overseas.
In the morning of August 3, sponsored by CSCSE of the Ministry of Education of China, China-EASEAN Education Cooperation Project Negotiation Conference was launched in Jinyang Eco-conference Center, Guizhou. As one of the four universities on behalf of Guizhou, in strict accordance with relevant regulations and requirements by the Organizing Committee of the 8thCAECW and Provincial Education Department, our school made publicity materials and arranged for the exhibition, showing fully school characteristics and teaching achievement. During the exhibition, leaders from Provincial Education Department and foreign representatives visited our school, getting to know our school characteristics and teaching achievements, and so forth.
Besides, in the afternoon of August 6, Doctor Zhang Ning from Acupuncture Department of our college delivered a vivid and fancy lecture on traditional Chinese medicine and healthy care for more than 20 foreign students and teachers of “advanced personnel training course on marine management and ocean economy”. During the lecture, he applied to molds and equipment, exchanged with guests, involved them in personal practice and finally won their praise warmly.
Our tasks during the conference were accomplished successfully due to the support and helps from School Office, Propaganda Department, Teaching Affairs Department, Youth League Committee, Security Office, Logistics Management Office, Foreign Language Teaching and Researching Department, School of Acupuncture Department, School of Medical Humanities and so on. This conference, on one hand, brought our school chances to exchange with sponsoring universities and colleagues in education and established friendly relation with them. On the other hand, it also acted as a platform to fully demonstrate our school in the aspect of characteristics and culture in Chinese medicine and the folk medicine.
Next year will be a year of China-ASEAN education exchange. By mobilizing and integrating all energies and resources, we hope to exchange with countries in ASEAN more deeply and broadly, build a new and unique platform and brand for exchange and cooperation with the outside and show the fruits and achievements of culture and education developing in traditional Chinese medicine and Guizhou ethnic medicine so as to function actively for mutual learning and joint promotion.
