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2014 Annual Meetingof China Association for International Education (CAFSA) held in LiaoningUniversity

On 23 July, the 2014 Annual Meeting of China Association forInternational Education (CAFSA) held in Liaoning University. Leaders of theInternational Department of Chinese Ministry of Education, domestic experts andscholars, education department of each province, all about 600 educatorsparticipated in the meeting.

In the first session, the president of Liaoning University, ZhouHaobo, Vice director-general of Education Department of Liaoning Province, LiuJinghui, the secretary-general of China Scholarship Council and Fangjun, vicedirector of International Department of Chinese Ministry of Education gave thespeech, present the achievement that have been got in the past year and pointsout the work direction of 2015.

In the second session, award ceremony was held to excellenteducators and departments that work for International Education. Leaders of theInternational Department of Chinese Ministry of Education expressed highlyappreciation to award-winners’ efforts in the work.

In the afternoon, Chen Long, vice president of Jiangsu University,Wang Luxin, deputy party secretary of Beijing Language and Culture University,Wang Qi, vice president of Shenyang Aerospace University and Wang Qinghe, vicepresident of Changchun University of Science and Technology made a speech onhow to promote university internationalization based on their own workexperience.

AT0086 also attended this annual meeting and shared experience onhow to increase international enrollment and optimize the structure ofinternational students’ country of origin, based on the experience of Europeanand American College, AT0086, and the unique environment of China as well,which got highly appreciation by the university.

2014年中国高等教育学会外国留学生教育管理分会学术年会于7月23日在辽宁大学召开。来自教育部国际司领导、各省市自治区教育厅、各接收来华留学生的高等院校领导及从事来华留学生教育的管理干部和教师共计600人参加会议。

大会由辽宁大学校领导致辞，辽宁省教育厅周浩波副厅长致辞；国家留学基金管理委员会刘京辉秘书长、教育部国际合作与交流司方军副司长发表讲话，他们对2014年来华留学教育工作成果表示肯定，同时指出2015年的工作发展方向。

大会第二个环节宣布了2014年学会表彰评奖结果并对获奖者举行了颁奖仪式。获奖代表刘军、安然分别作出了获奖感言。

大会下午江苏大学副校长陈龙、北京语言大学党委副书记王鲁新、沈阳航空航天大学副校长王琦、长春理工大学副校长王清和与各位参会代表分享了各自高校推进教育国际化及来华留学生情况，AT0086在华国际代表也就“网络信息时代，高校如何有效地扩大留学生规模，优化生源结构”做出了经验分享，获得参会高校的高度认可与好评。

Liu Jinghui, secretary-generalof China Scholarship Council

刘京辉，国家留学基金委秘书长

Fang Jun, vice director ofInternational Department of Chinese Ministry of Education

方军，教育部国际合作与交流司副司长

Award Ceremony

颁奖仪式

Representative of AT0086

AT0086在华国际代表

Signing Memorandum for Malay Students toStudy in China

The important memorandum has been arrangedan official ceremony in this historic school. AT-China Education staffs inMalaysia all attended this ceremony since a minister was invited to be awatcher. To pay the respect to minister, everybody arrived one hour earlierthan minister.

While waiting for minister's arrival, thepersons from both sides start interaction by greeting, discussing this event, takingphoto...etc. The teachers in this school were chatting about their background,students and religion. The interaction is so successful that everybody feeltime flees.

Once minister arrived, AT CHINA EDUCATIONdirectors walked out immediately to welcome minister. The minister shaked handsgladly with them.

The ceremony began once minister arrived. Both sides delivered the speech about this projects. Yi-Ping wasrepresenting AT CHINA EDUCATION. Then minister also spoke about this project. He honored the achievement of China and encouraged these students tostudy in China.

The signing of menorandum was afterminister's speech. Both signed the memo as usual then minister had to sign as awatcher. The ceremony ended with glee and unexpected feast.