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Chinese Ministry of Education: "CESL obtained great achievements"

26 April 2017, by Internetredaktion

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The deputy director of the Department of International Cooperation and Exchange of the Chinese Ministry of Education, Yu Jihai, praised the China-EU School of Law (CESL) as a model project of Sino-foreign cooperation in the field of higher education. Yu Jihai attended a meeting at the China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) on 7 April 2017 concerning amendments to the Regulations of the People’s Republic of China on Chinese-Foreign Cooperation in Running Schools. At the meeting, Ma Huaide, Vice-President of CUPL, provided legal training as an expert on administrative law to the working group which currently is drafting the amendment.

Before the meeting, Ma Huaide had reported on the China-EU School of Law (CESL) on behalf of CUPL to deputy director Yu Jihai. Ma Huaide expressed his hopes that the Ministry of Education will continue to support CESL in the future. Yu Jihai assured that he noticed that CESL as an intergovernmental, jointly-run education programme has “obtained great achievements”” since its establishment in 2008.  Currently, the Chinese Ministry of Education gives consideration to further support CESL and also considers integrating CESL into the "EU-China Higher Education Platform for Cooperation and Exchange".

This meeting was the fifth workshop of the working group in 2017. Over 30 experts and scholars attended this meeting including Yan Bingchen, chief of the Foreign Education and Supervision Division of the International Department of the Ministry of Education; Li  Yanguang, director of the Department of America and Oceania Affairs of the China Scholarship Council; Tang Zhenfu, vice-director of the Department of the Guarantee of Quality of Chinese-foreign cooperation in running schools in the China Education Association for International Exchange, Jiang Shuichang, vice-director of the Department of Development Planning of CUPL; Li Dandan, office director of the Confucius Institute; Lin Hua, associate professor of the Research Center of Government By Law, and more than twenty other experts and scholars from Beijing Foreign Studies University, Chongqing University of Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Qingdao University, and Shanghai Education Evaluation Institute.