Bai Ruojing marrymerryrose@yahoo.com Shenzhen International Friendship-City University League (SIFCUL) held its first secretariat meeting in 2017 at the Southern University of Science and Technology of China (SUSTC) yesterday. Secretaries from 12 initiating and member universities around Shenzhen attended the meeting. These 12 universities were SUSTC, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), Shenzhen University, Shenzhen Polytechnic, the Graduate School at Shenzhen (Tsinghua University), Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Guangdong Xin’an Vocational Technical College, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), Shenzhen Tourism College of Jinan University, Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology, Shenzhen MSU-BIT University and Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute. Wang Yongjie, secretary general of SIFCUL, opened the meeting by summarizing the past two annual events respectively coordinated by Shenzhen University in 2015 and Shenzhen Polytechnic in 2016. Li Xu, associate director of global engagement office at SUSTC shared two proposals in relation to the theme of the 2017 annual event. All attendees contributed ideas and discussed how to better share academic resources and promote academic exchanges through SIFCUL. SIFCUL was established in 2014. Its member universities are located in more than 10 countries. |