A party of five led by Communist Party (CP) Committee Secretary (equivalent to a university president) Gan Hui of Shaanxi Normal University (China), which has a partnership agreement with our university, visited Okayama University on July 24 to pay a courtesy call on President Kiyoshi Morita.
Okayama University and Shaanxi Normal University signed this partnership agreement in March 2013 to encourage interpersonal and intellectual collaboration, personnel exchanges and so on. Current exchanges are primarily focused on the Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty and Graduate School. On receiving this visit from CP Committee Secretary Gan Hui's party, the president spoke of "looking forward to exchanges in an even wider scope extending beyond the humanities and social sciences in the future."
CP Committee Secretary Gan Hui's party spoke informally with Dr. Masaru Akita (Executive Director and Vice-President (Social Responsibility and International Affairs)), Dr. Shoji Haruna (Dean of the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences) and Dr. Masaharu Seno (Dean of the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences) on future joint research and personnel exchanges, and observed the research environment and analytical equipment of the university.