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To promote connectivity and coordinated development between Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Hainan Free Trade Port and Southeast Asia, SCNU held the "Southeast Asian Forum" 2024 International Conference on November 16. Over 300 leaders, scholars, and experts from China, 11 other Southeast Asian nations, and Australia attended the event.
Yang Zhongmin, president of SCNU addressed at the opening ceremony. He said that SCNU has established eight overseas research bases and one overseas educational site in seven Southeast Asian countries, training more than 10,000 students from Southeast Asian nations, master's and doctoral degree holders majoring in Southeast Asian studies included.
Yang Zhongmin highlights SCNU's achievements in talent cultivation for Southeast Asian countries.
At the forum, experts and scholars made keynote speeches centering on the two key topics "cross-regional linkage" and "knowledge production" from different perspectives. They also had heated discussion on cooperative innovation connecting the Greater Bay Area, the Hainan Free Trade Port, and Southeast Asia under the theme of integration between industry and education, as well as personnel exchange.
Four sub-forums were also held, covering specific topics including economic and trade recovery and promotion, namely, the current situation and trend, cultural exchange and cooperation, biological resource utilization and biotechnologal innovation in Southeast Asia, and cross-regional cooperative and collaborative development in Malaysia. In addition, the forum specially added a forum for doctoral students this year, providing a platform for young doctoral students to exchange and learn from each other.
As one of the highlights of the conference, a four-university co-operation signing ceremony was also held to further promote bilateral cooperation and exchange berween universities. Vice president Wang Chunchao, on behalf of SCNU, signed the inter-university memorandums of understanding with representatives from Macau University of Science and Technology, University Malaya, and the University of the Philippines, respectively.
The signing of the cooperation agreement.
Group photo of all the participants.
Centered around international issues, the forum features multi-disciplinary strengths. It has become an important conference for exchange among interdisciplinary and cross-domain experts and scholars from Guangdong province, Hong Kong, Macao, and Southeast Asian countries since the establishment of the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies at SCNU in 2017.
Source from SCNU News Center
Translated by Chen Bao, Guo Zhongxuan, Tang Jingyue
Proofread by Edwin Baak
Edited by Li Jianru
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