On May 26th, Delegation from University of Maryland led by William Powers, Executive Associated Dean visited ZJSU. Li Jun, Deputy Party Secretary of ZJSU met the guests. Directors of School of Public Administration and International Office also attended the meeting.

On behalf of ZJSU, Li Jun extended the warmest welcome to the guests from University of Maryland. He introduced ZJSU to the guests with elaboration on the history and culture as well as the internationalization of education. He highlighted the basic information of School of Public Administration and the achievements in teaching staff and the internationalization of talent cultivation. Li Jun hoped that the substantive cooperation between School of Public Administration of ZJSU and the School of Public Policy of University of Maryland could bear the fruits as soon as possible. Professor William Powers also introduced his university and School of Public Policy. He said that it was honored to establish the cooperative relation with ZJSU, hoping to conduct more cooperation in the near future. The cooperative intention, fields and ways were also determined in this meeting.

Located in the state of Maryland, University of Maryland was established in 1856, covers an area of 1250 acres. It was a world famous university and an eminent public research university in America. As the only one comprehensive public institution of higher education in Washington, the University of Maryland boasts favorable location, which makes its teachers and students easy and frequent to get in touch with federation, states, the local governments at all levels and the transnational institutions, non-governmental organizations, industry associations such as World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund.