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New Agreement for IFC Signed in Suzhou


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The signing ceremony for the new agreement of Institut franco-chinois de l'Université de Renmin de Chine was held in SIP Sunday morning. On the basis of revising and perfecting the first cooperation agreement, the two parties of the institute signed the renewal agreement for conjoined construction.

 

 

Jointly established by Renmin University of China, Paris-Sorbonne, Universite Paul-Valery and Kedge Business School, IFC is the only Sino-France institute dedicated to humanities and social sciences. 

After years of construction, IFC has made remarkable achievements and breakthroughs in terms of discipline building, talent training, enrollment and career, international exchanges, etc. There are over 1,000 undergraduate students in the school and the first batch of 152 students have graduated. IFC was honored as Jiangsu Province's "High Level Demonstration Construction Project for Sino-foreign Educational Cooperation", and it also won the "China-France University Cooperation Excellent Project Award", an award by the two governments.   
   


The signing of the new agreement marks the ushering-in of new development opportunities for the institute. In the future, both parties will continue to optimize the school-running mode, raise the school management level, and carry out higher-end and deeper international education exchanges in a bid to lift Sino-France education to a higher level. 

Xu Huimin, member of the standing committee of CPC Suzhou Municipal Committee and secretary of CPC SIP Working Committee, said in his speech at the ceremony that as an exemplary representative of SIP's Sino-foreign education cooperation, IFC has trained in the past few years a batch of high-quality talents who "can walk freely between eastern and western cultural platforms", which has provided strong talent support and intelligence guarantee for Suzhou's transformation and innovative development, and the enhancement of Suzhou's soft power and hard power.

In the future, SIP will make further efforts to build internationalized education demonstration zone, and make useful explorations to innovate the system and mechanism of Sino-foreign education cooperation and promote the internationalization and modernization of China's higher learning.  
 


The ceremony also saw the inauguration of International Chinese Education Center. Jointly set up by Suzhou Campus, Renmin University of China (RUC), and Suzhou Dushu Lake Science & Education Innovation District, the new center is designed to step up the global development of Chinese education, improve RUC's internationalization and drive the progress of Suzhou's internationalization.


November 28,2016