Chinese Education Minister Visits Austria to Boost CooperationThe education ministers of China and Austria said Friday in Vienna the continued closer cooperation in education and science between the two countries are of great significance to promoting mutual understanding and furthering bilateral ties.A joint communique signed by Chinese Education Minister Chen Zhili and her Austrian counterpart, Elisabeth Gehrer, said the two countries will incorporate the work plan for cooperation in education and science into bilateral exchange programs in education and culture. A joint commission will be established to see to the implementation of the program. The communique noted that mutual recognition of diplomas and degrees issued by each other's institutes of higher learning is of great significance to academic exchanges between students and scholars and to cooperation between universities. The two sides will exchange information on the latest developments and reform in each other's higher education and institutes of higher learning, which is termed by the communique as "the bases for initiating progress and innovation in the 21st century." The two sides expressed appreciation of what each has done for the study of the other country's language, literature and culture, and satisfaction over the cooperation between universities and research institutes of the two countries. The Chinese side expressed its willingness to cooperate with Austria in vocational education and the wish that more Austrian enterprises will join the exchange and cooperation in this field. Chen arrived here Thursday for a six-day visit. During her stay she toured some elementary and high schools and technical schools in the capital. The Chinese visitors will also visit Vienna University and Salzburg University and present books and visual and audio files to the China centers in the two universities. |
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