From October 20 to 26, Yang Xueqin, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Party Committee of Wuxi University of Technology (WXUT), led a delegation on an official visit to Malaysia and Indonesia, joined by heads of the university's Office of International Exchange and Cooperation, School of Mechanical Engineering, School of Internet of Things Engineering, and School of Management.
During the visit, the delegation held discussions with government agencies, universities and enterprises including the Malaysia Technical Expert Committee, PSA Polytechnic Malaysia, Karawang University in Indonesia, SANY Indonesia Manufacturing Co., Ltd., and Jakarta Global University, covering vocational education standard certification, joint talent training, co-development of curricula, and corporate-academia collaboration in going global.
Malaysia: Standard Recognition and Institutional Exchange
In Malaysia, the delegation first met with the Malaysia Technical Expert Committee. Yang introduced WXUT's educational strengths and talent training advantages, proposing to use professional standards and certification as a bridge to align its programs, curricula and teaching resources with Malaysia's technical and vocational skills certification system. The two sides exchanged views on aligning vocational skills standards, seeking international certification of curricula, building a "Chinese Plus Vocational Skills" training and certification system, and technical expert accreditation. Ms. Nur Sakina Binti Ishak, head of the committee, welcomed the delegation and expressed support for WXUT's participation in the development and accreditation of Malaysia's vocational education standards, offering a channel for the university's high-quality teaching resources to take root in Malaysia.
The delegation then visited PSA Polytechnic Malaysia, where President Azman Bin Arshad received the delegation. Both sides shared their educational foundations, program portfolios, training facilities and international cooperation achievements, and discussed joint talent training, co-development of curricula, two-way exchanges of faculty and students, and the shared building and use of training bases.
Visit to the Malaysia Technical Expert Committee
Visit to PSA Polytechnic Malaysia
Indonesia: Joint Programs and a New Overseas Campus
In Indonesia, the delegation first visited Karawang University, where President Ade Maman Suherman received the visitors. The two universities discussed joint talent training, benchmarking of academic programs, faculty and student exchanges, and co-building of internationalized courses. Together with Rootcloud Technology Co., Ltd., the three parties signed a trilateral memorandum of understanding, pledging to leverage their academic and industrial resources to jointly cultivate high-caliber technical talent suited to local industrial needs.
The delegation then visited SANY Indonesia Manufacturing Co., Ltd., hosted by General Manager Ding Shifeng. After touring the SANY Heavy Industry Lighthouse Factory in Indonesia, the delegation gained first-hand insight into SANY's local operations, its employees' skills training needs and localized workforce development. The two sides discussed order-based talent training, upskilling programs for local staff, and overseas internship and training bases.
At the SANY Indonesia Global Training Center, Yang Xueqin, together with Chen Lifeng, General Manager of Rootcloud's Education Business Division, and Joko Setio Widodo, President of Jakarta Global University, signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly establish the Zheng He College and unveiled the college. The college is designed to integrate WXUT's educational resources, corporate technology platforms and the local capacity of Indonesian universities to deliver degree programs, skills training and cultural exchange, creating an overseas education platform that combines talent development, technical services and cross-cultural understanding in response to Indonesia's industrial development and the hiring needs of Chinese enterprises.
Visit to Karawang University
Visit to SANY Indonesia Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
Unveiling Ceremony of the Zheng He College
International Academic Conference Draws 200+ Participants
On October 24–25, WXUT and Jakarta Global University co-hosted the "Smart Share 2026" international academic conference, which brought together more than 200 scholars and business representatives from eight countries, including Malaysia, Indonesia and Uzbekistan. Yang Xueqin, together with Eddy Yoseph, Chairman of the Board of Jakarta Global University, and President Joko Setio Widodo, delivered opening remarks. Yang noted that vocational education serves as a key bridge for people-to-people exchanges and production capacity cooperation, and invited participants to visit WXUT. During the conference, three faculty members — Duan Lihua, Wu Zhaoming and Qin Tao — delivered keynote presentations on their research.
The visit, compact yet productive, achieved breakthroughs in standard certification, inter-institutional cooperation, corporate-academia collaboration and platform building, further expanding the university's vocational education cooperation network in Southeast Asia. WXUT will follow up on the outcomes item by item, using its strengths in vocational education to build new bridges of people-to-people exchange and production capacity cooperation between China, Malaysia and Indonesia, in support of high-quality development under the Belt and Road Initiative.
Address by Yang Xueqin, Secretary of the CPC Party Committee
Scenes from the Conference
