SCNU is active in international cultural and academic exchange, with its advantage of being close to Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and its strength in teacher education. Links have been established with over 160 higher education institutions and scientific and research organizations at home and abroad. Substantial progress has been made in a wide range of cooperation projects involving talent introduction, quality teaching resources, talent training, academic research, joint education, international conferences, the teaching of Chinese as a foreign language, etc.. Among them, the "International Joint Laboratory for Optical Information Technologies" co-established by Eindhoven University of Technology, University of Twente and Lund University, Sweden marked a new stage in the internationalization of science and technology of SCNU. So far SCNU has established three Confucius Institutes in the city of Coquitlam in British Columbia Canada, and at the University of Reunion in France, and the University of Latvia in the Republic of Latvia.
