On September 15, Mr. Abou Amani, Director of the Division of Water Sciences of UNESCO and Secretary of the IHP, visited Hohai University. Jinhai Zheng, Vice President of Hohai University, received distinguished guests.
Mr. Abou Amani spoke highly of Hohai University's support for UNESCO-IHP. He believed that realistic issues such as climate change and water resource management should be regarded as global issues concerning the world and all countries should establish cooperation with a more open attitude. The cooperation model between Hohai University and UNESCO-IHP could be promoted to more universities and countries. After full exchanges , the two sides reached a consensus on providing more chairs for the UNESCO Water Family under the framework of UNESCO, building UNESCO's water-related centres and laboratories, promoting in-depth water education in China, and strengthening young talent exchanges, so as to further promote international cooperation between Hohai University as well as China in the field of water resources with UNESCO and provide more lasting scientific and technological and talent support for promoting the establishment of a community with a shared future for mankind.
The symposium was presided over by Professor Yu , Director of the National Key Laboratory of Water Disaster Prevention. Professor Slobodan Simonovic, a high-level overseas expert of Hohai University and academician of the Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Engineering; Chairman of the water education working group of the IHP-IX Strategic Plan, heads of related offices attended the symposium and had in-depth exchanges on their respective work and possible fields of cooperation.
Before the conference, Mr. Abou Amani visited the National Key Laboratory of Water Disaster Prevention as well.
