‘Governor House to have special desk to facilitate Pak-China educational ventures’

Karachi

A help desk would be set up at the Governor House to facilitate the universities of Sindh in establishing academic ties with their counterparts in China, announced Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad on Tuesday.

Speaking with a delegation comprising of four Chinese universities and 13 vice chancellors of Pakistani public-sector universities at the Governors House, he said the desk would provide assistance to universities in Sindh and China. The 10-member Chinese delegation along with the vice chancellors discussed prospects of academic ties with the Chinese universities and other educational institutions.

Introducing their programme for international institutions, the vice chancellors requested the Chinese delegation to offer more opportunities to Pakistani students keeping in view the brotherly relations of the two countries.

The governor told the delegation that the Governor House had already established a similar desk for the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in which investors and companies were being facilitated regarding investment in the CPEC projects.

Calling the CPEC the future of the region, he said intellectuals would be spearheading the future interaction between the two countries, thus the universities would be playing a key role in grooming those intellectuals.

“It is good to know that our province has taken the lead in establishing contacts with the universities in Hainan province of China.”

Universities Forum

During the second day of a three-day conference of the Sindh-Hainan Universities Forum, the officials of four Chinese universities introduced their campuses and faculties to the audience at local hotel.

The three day forum is being organised by the Sindh Madressatul Islam University under the China-Pakistan Partnership.

Representatives of the Hainan University, Hainan Normal University, Hainan Tropical Ocean University and Sanya University gave introductions of their institutions.

Yundi Chen, secretary of the party committee of the International Education School of the Hainan Normal University, said under the Chinese government’s policy of internationalisation and globalisation of the higher education, the number of universities in China was on the rise as more and more international students were offered admissions in the universities.

He said the foundation of the Sindh-Hainan Universities Forum was a milestone, which would help China and Pakistan to start mutual programmes.