Jointly sponsored by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of P. R. China, Ministry of Education of P.R. China, and the People’s Government of Guizhou Province, the Second China-ASEAN Education Cooperation Week (“Cooperation Week” called hereafter) will be held in Guiyang from August 5^th to August 8^th , 2009. It aims to strengthen the friendship, mutual understanding and collaboration between China and ASEAN countries, to promote partnerships among the universities in the region, to provide more opportunities for students’ communications, and to push forward China-ASEAN economic and cultural exchange and development. As one of the organizers, Guizhou University would like to extend our warm welcome to invite you to the Second China-ASEAN Education Cooperation Week.

The Second China-ASEAN Education Cooperation Week intends to follow up the consensus reached in Guiyang Statement, and to substantially push forward the implementation of the achievements made in the First China-ASEAN Education Cooperation Week, to enhance and develop China-ASEAN Educational Cooperation. The Cooperation Week consists of four parts: China-ASEAN University Rectors Forum, Seminar for China-ASEAN Higher Educational Administrators, Youth Summer Camp, and Seminar on China-ASEAN Environmental Education.

 Seminar on China-ASEAN Environmental Education will focus on the following aspects:

            1.  Talent Cultivation, Students Mobility, Mutual Recognition of Credits

            2.  Academic Exchange, Language Teaching Collaboration

            3.  China-ASEAN University Students Sports Exchange

            4.  Conceptualization of China-ASEAN Intercollegiate Collaborations and Suggestions

In the Seminar for China-ASEAN Higher Educational Administrators, special attention will be given

to the exchange on the progress of the implementation of the intercollegiate collaboration agreement

approved in Guiyang Statement. To push forward more exchanges and deeper development of

higher education cooperation between China and ASEAN, joint explorations to seek solutions to the

problems or difficulties arising in the collaboration will be made; it intends to work out plans for the

cooperative programs in the near future.

All are welcome to attend the series of activities held in the Second Cooperation Week. For more

detailed information on the agenda, registration and contact method, please refer to the

appendixes.