On January 15, Fu Bo, Deputy Secretary-General of China Education Association for International Exchange (CEAIE), met with Lindsay Margenau, Counsellor (Commercial) and Senior Trade Commissioner of the Embassy of Canada and her team. The two sides engaged in a cordial and in-depth discussion on education cooperation between China and Canada.
Fu Bo briefed CEAIE's recent working ties with Canada in the education sector, highlighting the participation of a Chinese higher education delegation in the 2024 annual conference of the Canadian Bureau for International Education. This marked the first group visit by Chinese universities to Canada since the Covid, with cooperative proposals to advance collaborations in summer schools, student exchanges, and other areas between the two countries. The visit has effectively revitalized existing partnerships between Chinese and Canadian institutions and bolstered confidence in further cooperation. Fu Bo reiterated that both sides should work together to promote pragmatic collaboration, particularly in student and faculty exchanges, leadership capacity building, and high-level joint education programs, and extended an invitation for Canadian institutions to visit China and participate in the China Annual Conference & Expo for International Education (CACIE) in 2025.
Lindsay Margenau emphasized Canada's commitment to fostering educational exchanges and cooperation with China. She emphasized the Canadian Embassy's support for Canadian institutions in pursuing diverse forms of collaboration with Chinese counterparts, encouraged visits in both directions, and expressed the importance to strengthen information sharing through seminars, institutional visits, and other activities, working together with CEAIE to unlock the full potential of China-Canada educational cooperation.
Representatives from the Embassy of Canada and Department of Higher Education Cooperation of CEAIE were present in the meeting.
(By Department of Higher Education Cooperation）
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