Leaded by Chairman of the Board Mr. Surayud Chulanont, Delegation of King Mongkut's Institute of Technology (KMIT) in Thailand visited HITSZ on November 8th, 2015. Rector of HITSZ Yingxue Yao met the delegation in Room B404.
Yingxue Yao expressed his warm welcome to the guests. He said HIT and KMIT have had long and close cooperation in bio-science and technology and made great achievements. HITSZ would like to have more communication with KMIT and the visit of the delegation would be a good start. Communication and cooperation with KMIT would surely push forward HITSZ’s study of Southeast Asia, which should be positive to the school’s disciplines development in humanities and arts.
Mr. Surayud Chulanont Thanked HITSZ for the warm welcome. He suggested communication between the two institutions start from faculty level, based on which student exchange, workshops and international conferences could be developed. He welcomed faculty members to visit KMIT for Southeast Asia Study. He hoped that the two institutions could also have cooperation in environmental engineering, which might help solve problems Thailand is facing now. He would be happy to promote the communication of the two institutions after he returned to Thailand.
After speeches of Professor Yingxue Yao and Mr. Surayud Chulanont, introductions of the two institutions were given and more information was exchanged.
Professor Qian Yang from HIT, Head of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Wenbiao Jin, Director of the Rector’s Office Ms. Lin Li, and Vice Director of the Office of Science and Technology Development Mr. Yanfeng Zhang also participated in the meeting.
After the meeting, the delegation visited key laboratories in HITSZ.