The first Degree Awarding Ceremony for international undergraduate students of DUT-BSU Joint Insitute (hereinafter referred to as DBJI) was successfully held at the Belarusian State University on September 16. Andrei D. Karol, Rector of BSU, Dmitry G. Medvedev, First Vice-Rector of BSU and relevant principals of school of International Relations, Department of Physics and Department of Mechanics.

As the first and only international cooperative educational institution jointly approved by the Ministry of Education of China and Belarus, DBJI is a major measure taken by DUT to enhance the level of internationalization and build "Double First-class" education in cooperation with the Promote Co-Construction of the Belt and Road Initiative Educational Action of the Ministry of Education of China.

In order to better implement the university's strategy of international talent cultivation, in 2019, DBJI recruited students majoring in physics and mechanics from BSU to study in the same class, research in the same group, and live on the same campus with students from DBJI, forging a profound "Schoolfellow Friendship". After four years of hard work, five Belarusian students successfully met the graduation requirements of both DUT and BSU this June, then becoming the first batch of Belarusian students to receive degrees from both schools.

These graduates were unable to attend the graduation ceremony in DUT due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so BSU decided to hold a special graduation ceremony for these special graduates on the BSU campus. At the ceremony, Andrei D. Karol said that the successful graduation of the first Belarusian students in the University was a milestone in the educational cooperation between China and Belarus. He encouraged the graduates to grow up to be a bridge linking the friendship between China and Belarusand realize a wonderful life in the broad world stage. Olga Sinyavskaya then spoke on behalf of the graduates.

DUT and BSU have helped Chinese and Belarusian students experience each other's culture deeply and become lifelong friends while fulfilling their core mission of talent training, injecting new and strong impetus into the upgrading of China-Belarusian strategic cooperative partnership and the construction and development of the Belt and Road Initiative.