On the morning of June 7th, the meeting of presidents of the the DUT-BSU Joint Institute was held in the lecture hall of the main building. Academician Guo Dongming, president of DUT, and Andrei Carroll, president of the Belarusian State University, had face-to-face exchanges with the 79 students of the 2017 class enrolled in the first session of the DUT-BSU Joint Institute. Vice President Zhu Hong, Assistant Principal Luo Zhongxuan, heads of Academic Affairs Office, DUT-BSU Joint Institute, School of Mathematics, Belarusian State University, Confucius Institute and related departments attended the meeting. The meeting was hosted by Assistant Principal Luo Zhongxuan.
President Guo Dongming pointed out at the meeting that DUT-BSU Joint Institute as the first international cooperative education institution approved by the Ministry of Education of China and Belarus, it should shoulder the historical mission of jointly training high-level international talents for China and Belarus. As students of the international union college, everyone's goal is to grow into international high-level talents with compound language skills and professional skills.
President Guo Dongming put forward four hopes to the students of DUT-BSU Joint Institute. He hoped that the students could seize the opportunity, grasp the direction, and establish the lofty ideal of youth; have a solid foundation, focus on doing things, and build a solid foundation for future development; broaden their horizons, focus on the first-class, and cultivate international Innovative thinking; not afraid of difficulties, dare to open up, and bloom the most beautiful light of youth.
President Andre Carroll pointed out in his speech that Dalian University of Technology had always been the most trusted partner of Belarusian State University. The two universities had not only completed and developed the education and scientific research of China and Belarus in the course of 13 years of cooperation but also reached a new level in all-round cooperation. He hoped that new students, being the first students of the joint school between China and Belarus, would build on reality and create a better future together!
According to the regulations of the DUT-BSU Joint Institute, the students are enrolled in both DUT and BSU. At the meeting, under the witness of the presidents and teachers of the two universities, the president of Belarusian State University Andrei Carroll issued the student card and school badge of the Belarusian State University to the representatives of the students of the DUT-BSU Joint Institute.
At the meeting, Igor Saradukkin, the current teacher of Applied Physics at DUT-BSU Joint Institute, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Physics of Belarusian State University, and Liu Jiahao, a 2017 student from the Department of Engineering Mechanics of DUT-BSU Joint Institute, delivered speeches on behalf of teachers and students.
The meeting ended with the recitation of Chinese, English and Russian trilingual poems and a small chorus in Russian by the students of the DUT-BSU Joint Institute.
After the meeting, all the participants took a group photo in front of the chairman's portrait.
