On October 13, Vice President Weiya Xu met with guests from the China-ASEAN Clean Energy Capacity Building Programme - 2017 Exchange Project. The meeting was also attended by relevant personnel from China Renewable Energy Engineering Institute and China Telecom Construction East China Investigation and Design Institute as well as International Office, Business School and College of Energy and Electrical Engineering, Hohai University.
Vice President Weiya Xu extended a warm welcome to the guests and briefly introduced Hohai University. He pointed out that internationalization, having always been one of the important strategies for the development of Hohai University, plays a very important role at the time when Hohai University is striving to develop as a high-level research university and working hard for “ Double First-Class" construction. He hoped that Hohai University will further cooperation with ASEAN countries and achieve common, sustainable and leap-forward development under the framework of the "One Belt And One Road" Water Strategic Alliance launched by Hohai University. Later, the ASEAN guests were shown around the Qingliangshan Campus of Hohai University and then went to the Jiangning campus for a symposium in the Business School.
To deliver the spirit of Premier Li Keqiang’s speech on promoting clean energy cooperation between China and ASEAN countries, in 2016, China implemented China - ASEAN Clean Energy Capacity Building Programme. On October 9-13, 2017, the first “ Capacity Building Programme" was held in Hangzhou with over 60 officials and experts from governments and Think Tanks of Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Brunei, Philippines and China. As a joint project organizer, Hohai university took an active participation in it. Business School, College of Energy and Electric Engineering, etc. of Hohai University took part in the training project design, part of the teaching and the organization of “ ASEAN Clean Energy Leadership Exchange Seminar".