On March 25, the opening ceremony of 2021 Wuxi International Cherry Blossom Festival and the 34th anniversary of the Sino-Japanese Cherry Blossom Friendship Forest was held in Wuxi. Lin Songtian, President of the Chinese People's, Bai Suning, President of the Jiangsu Provincial Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, Du Xiaogang, Mayor of Wuxi Municipal People's Government, Zhou Minwei, Chairman of Wuxi Municipal Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference, Zhou Changqing, Vice Mayor of Wuxi Municipal People's Government, and Zhang Lijun, Secretary-General of Wuxi Municipal People‘s Government all attended the event. Ambassador of the Republic of Singapore to the People's Republic of China and the officials from the consulates in Shanghai of Japan, Germany, Denmark, Ethiopia, Singapore, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Ireland, Belgium and other countries also attended. Over 400 representatives of some foreign local government agencies in China, foreign-funded enterprises and institutions attended the opening ceremony as well.
Witnessed by Du Xiaogang, Mayor of Wuxi Municipal People‘s Government, Wendy Dorman-Smith, the Consul General of Consulate General of Ireland and other guests, President Gong Fanghong, on behalf of WXIT, signed an international joint laboratory agreement with Athlone Institute of Technology in Ireland, which marks the beginning of a new chapter in the cooperation between them. It also marks that the international scientific research cooperation of the two schools has entered a new field of high-end intelligent manufacturing.
At present, the internationalization of education in WXIT has entered a new stage of development. WXIT will insist on the direction of internationalization of education, strive to build a national double-high college of the A-class, endeavor to become a pioneer of the internationalization of national vocational college education in the new era and a promoter and practitioner of international exchanges and cooperation in Wuxi.
