From March 10 to 24, the first Language + Culture + Skills Thai student Silk Road Economics and Trade workshop was run successfully, with 33 teachers and students from Thailand having finished the courses and completed the training. The ZJIET CPC Secretary Lao Ciming, President Chen Dequan, and vice President Lin Feng showed up in the relevant activities.
Lao Ciming attended the intangible heritage handicraft making workshop and communicated with the Thai students. He stressed that the friendship between China and Thailand had lasted long and will be lasted even longer. Young students are the builders of the future community, protecting and promoting regional and global peace and development. He hoped that the teachers and students from the two countries will take this workshop as an opportunity for further communication and mutual learning to actively contribute to the promotion of building a community with a shared future for the mankind and to the realization of the world’s sustainable development.
Chen Dequan attended the opening ceremony and gave a speech. He pointed out that the Silk Road Economics and Trade research camp is a key exchange program of the school to serve the high-quality development of the Belt and Road initiatives. Through the language and culture exchanges and the mutual learning between the Chinese and foreign students, the workshop aims to deepen cross-cultural understanding and improve people-to-people communications. He hoped that students from both countries may take the workshop as a platform to learn from each other, work together and contribute to a better China-Thailand friendship.
Focusing on the three major themes of language + culture + skills, the workshop went on with the modular courses of comprehensive Chinese language course, intangible cultural heritage course, e-commerce skills, and introduction of the country, giving the Thai teachers and students an opportunity of perceiving Chinese culture and China's development comprehensively and deeply.
During the study, the class visited Hangzhou Museum, the Grand Canal Museum, and the Silk Museum of Zhejiang University of Science and Technology. Through their visits to a number of historical sites, they walked across the millennium years old historical and cultural heritage of Hangzhou and learned about the profoundness of Chinese culture in an all-round and immersive way.
Lin Feng attended the graduation ceremony and presented graduation certificates to the Thai teachers and students. Leaders and relevant teachers of the School of Public Education, School of International Trade, School of Humanities and Tourism, School of Cooperative Economics, School of Information Technology, School of Applied Engineering, School of Finance and Accounting, International Exchange and Cooperation Center participated in the workshop and did all the teaching.
The Silk Road Economics and Trade workshop is a post-pandemic research and study exchange program that ZJIET designed for the young students from the Belt-&-Road countries. It aims to organize special research activities on language and culture, vocational skills, innovation and entrepreneurship for the Chinese and foreign teachers and students via a wide range of two-way activities and to facilitate foreign teachers and students to fully perceive the Chinese history and traditional culture, to solidify humanities and cultural exchanges between the Chinese and foreign teachers and students, and to promote the mutual understanding between the two peoples in the international spread of Chinese culture. With an effective enhancement of the international influence in economics and trade, ZJIET strives to be an internationally renowned high-level vocational institute.
