On March 31st, delegation from Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology (SIST) led by Noguchi Boichi, President of SIST visited ZJSU. Chen Shoucan, President of ZJSU and Dai Wenzhan, Vice President of ZJSU met the guests. Tao Ying, Director of International Affairs Office and WuLing, Vice Dean of the School of Oriental Languages and Culture along with other colleagues also attended the meeting.

President Chen had a friendly and frank talk with the Japanese guests. He reviewed the history of cooperation between the two universities and extended his appreciation to Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology for its care of the exchange students from ZJSU. Then Chen gave a brief introduction of the recent development of ZJSU and great progress in internationalization made in the School of Oriental Languages and Culture. He hoped that the two schools would keep promoting exchanges and cooperation on the basis of the existing platform to achieve more outcomes in exchanges of teachers and students and scientific research cooperation. In response, President Noguchi introduced basic information and recent development of SIST and expressed warmest welcome to teachers and students from ZJSU coming to visit. At last, President Chen said that although tremendous changes of the two sides, friendship between the two sides stayed unchanged and would last forever . It has been over ten years since ZJSU established an official friendly relation with SIST in 2006. Consistent exchanges of teachers and students between the two sides has been made since then. So far, ZJSU has sent nearly 60 exchange students to SIST. Many leaders of ZJSU have visited SIST and it is the second time for President Noguchi to visit ZJSU.

Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology was established in 1940 and began to provide university courses in 1991. It’s a new-model private university comprehensively constructed with science, engineering and liberal arts. Shizuoka University of Science and Technology is located in the central part of Japan—Shizuoka, whose west part is famous for industries of automobile (e.g. Suzuki, Yamaha), instrument (e.g. Yamaha) and optical application. The employment rate of graduates of Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology is one of the highest among Japanese universities.