On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the establishment of Sister-Province relation between Fujian Province and Ceará, Brazil, the Foreign Affairs Office of the People’s Government of Fujian Province and the Education Department of Fujian Province jointly held a video conference on the evening of November 11, to discuss the cooperation in higher education between Fujian Province and Ceará, Brazil.

The conference focused on the cooperation in higher education between Fujian Province and Ceará, Brazil, with the purpose of strengthening friendship and creating more in-depth exchanges and cooperation opportunities. Attendees to the video conference were: Mr. Ahuba, Director of the Department of Science, Technology and Higher Education of Ceará; Mr.Fernanderze, Deputy Director of Secondary and Vocational Education Department of Ceará; representatives from universities of Ceará; Yan Yuqing, Chinese Consul General in Recife; Huang Shaorong, Deputy Director of the Foreign Affairs Office of the People’s Government of Fujian Province; Wang Yang, Deputy Director of the Education Department of Fujian Province, as well as representatives from FPNU and ten more universities in Fujian.

FPNU, as a main participator in the conference, proposed to cooperate with the universities in Ceará, Brazil in three majors, which are food science and engineering, computer science and technology, and applied chemistry. We aim to strengthen the cultural exchanges between China and Brazil by carrying out the training of “Chinese language+ vocational education”, and hosting the exchange activities among young students from the two countries. On behalf of FPNU, Vice President Shang Guangmei made a speech, introducing FPNU’s condition and the features and success of the above mentioned three majors. Through this online conference, FPNU has reached an initial cooperation agreement with the Federal University of Ceará and the State University of Ceará in Brazil, and will further discuss over the details of the cooperation.

Ceará is the first state in Latin America with which Fujian established a Sister-Province relation. Ceará and Fujian became sister provinces/states in 2001. In these two decades, the two parties made cultural exchanges, and actively promoted the cooperation in economy, trade, tourism, infrastructure and other fields. The friendship has stood the test of time and even the epidemic.

(Office of International Cooperation and Exchange)

(Translated by Lin Huimin , an English Major student of FPNU

/Reviewed by Wang Ying)