On the afternoon of 18 December 2021, the ASEAN-Jiangsu Higher Education Cooperation Seminar was successfully held. The event was co-hosted by the ASEAN-China Centre (ACC) and the Foreign Affairs Office (FAO) of Jiangsu Provincial People’s Government and undertaken by Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech). Ms. Li Yaying, Deputy Director of the Education, Culture and Tourism Division of ACC, Ms. Wang Wenhui, Deputy Director of the Division of Asian and African Affairs of Jiangsu FAO, and Dr. Niu Shengjie, Vice President of NanjingTech, attended and addressed the seminar online and offline.

Nine universities and colleges of Jiangsu Province, namely Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Hohai University, Soochow University, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing Tech University, Yangzhou University, NanJing XiaoZhuang University, Nanjing Communications Institute of Technology and Jiangsu Agri-animal Husbandry Vocational College, respectivly introduced their basic information, main features of academic majors and international exchanges and cooperation, and brought about specific programme proposals on enhancing collaboration with ASEAN Member States (AMS). Mr. Yaya Sutarya, Education and Culture Attaché of the Embassy of Indonesia in China, Mr. Phoxay Thepvilayvong, Education and Culture Counsellor of the Embassy of Lao PDR in China, and Mr. Hoang Mai Dien, First Secretary of the Embassy of Viet Nam in China, responded positively to the cooperative suggestions and looked forward to continuous pragmatic cooperation through joint efforts in aspects concerning discipline co-construction, teacher-and-student exchanges, and training and internship programmes.