On 18 September, a three-member delegation led by Lisa Wallace, Vice Chancellor of Swansea University, and Anney Yimeng An, Director of Global Engagement, visited Harbin Engineering University (HEU). YU Zhiwen, Vice President of HEU, met with the guests in the large meeting room on the 8th floor of the Main Building.
YU Zhiwen extended a warm welcome and briefly reviewed the history and outcomes of bilateral cooperation. He stated that through long-term friendly and trust-based collaboration, the two universities have formed close ties and delivered fruitful results in talent training and faculty-student exchanges, providing valuable learning opportunities for both sides. He expressed the hope that the two universities would further expand cooperation areas, deepen collaboration, advance new project development, adjustments to existing programme models, postgraduate training, cooperative education institution planning and research cooperation, jointly open a new chapter in bilateral ties, and contribute to the flourishing of Sino-British education.
Lisa Wallace introduced the core educational features of Swansea University and spoke highly of the joint Sino-foreign cooperative education programmes and the long-standing close partnership. She expressed the hope that both sides would strengthen exchanges, further enhance bilateral relations, support the expansion and adjustment of cooperative education programmes, continuously optimise cooperation content, increase the frequency of faculty and student exchanges, carry out practical research and academic collaboration, promote academic resource sharing, and deliver more cooperation outcomes.
Founded in 1920, Swansea University is a leading UK research centre with excellent teaching and research standards. It ranked 292nd globally in the 2026 QS World University Rankings and 322nd in the 2027 edition. HEU and Swansea University began cooperation in 2013. Through the College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and the College of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, the two universities run undergraduate Sino-foreign cooperative education programmes in Mechanical Design, Manufacturing and Automation, and Materials Physics.
