Sichuan Tourism University News Network(Correspondent: Pan Dong)On October 7, a delegation from Woosong University, South Korea, includingPresident Chen Gaohuan, Vice President Li Taikui, and Liu Nian, Director of the China Affairs Office and Dean ofthe Overseas Education College, visited our university. Li Xiang, Member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee andVice President of Sichuan Tourism University, met with the guests and held a cooperation exchange meeting. Relevant heads of the Office of International Exchange and Cooperation and the College of Culinary and Food Science Engineering attended the meeting.

Li Xiang stated that the two universities are highly aligned in disciplinary characteristics in the field of culinary and food education and have a solid foundation for cooperation. Sichuan Tourism University has long been engaged in the inheritance and innovation of culinary education, while also actively developing disciplines related to smarttourism and artificial intelligence. He hoped that both sides, relying on their distinctive and advantageous specialties, would actively explore diversified cooperation models, establish regular channels for faculty and student exchanges, expand multiple cooperation paths, fully unleash the advantages of both sides' disciplinary resources, and jointly cultivate internationalized talents in culture, tourism, and catering.

Chen Gaohuan introduced the development of Woosong University. Woosong University's culinary-related programs rank among the top in South Korea and have established first-class overseas teaching platforms with internationally renowned institutions such as theInstitut Paul Bocuse in France and ALMA, the International School of Italian Cuisine. He looked forward to taking the culinary discipline as a breakthrough point, giving full play to Woosong University's advantages as an international platform, and promoting the implementation of various cooperation projects.

At the meeting, both sides held thorough discussions on the policies and regulations for overseas schooling and the pathways for vocational education going global, focusing on practical topics such as joint full-degree cultivation and two-way overseas schooling between the two universities, and exchanged views on the paths and work directions for advancing these initiatives.

Since the visit by the Woosong University delegation in June this year, the two universities have maintained close communication and coordination. Both sides agreed tocontinue working closely together, give full play to their respective advantages in disciplines, industry, and platforms, deepen people-to-people and educational exchanges in the fields of culture, tourism, and culinary arts between China and South Korea, and jointly create a new model of practical cooperation between Chinese and South Korean applied universities.

Reviewed by: Zhang Yuan

Edited by: Yang Yang