On March 26th, 2007, 10 Swiss students from Zurich Applied Technology University came to our college for 2-week study. The two universities established the cooperation relationship in 2004. For 3 years this good relationship has been maintained very well. In 2005 Mr. Yibo Liu, the 1st exchange student from Finance Department of our college, with his excellent performance and school records, went to Switzerland to do his second bachelor’s degree. In 2006, Ms. Qiao Yang, who was the champion of the CCTV English speech contest, went there as the second exchange student. They sent students to our college as well.

In the morning of March 27th, 2007, the president Mr. Fanmin Kong and Ms. Yan Li, the director of the international office, joined the happy students for a group picture. That day afternoon, the students visited the Forbidden City, the Tian’ anmen Square and Wang Fujing shopping street. Ms. Elizabeth Thasan, an English teacher from this group, told us:” The first day’s activity lets me experience a totally different Beijing from the one in my memory. In Switzerland I only knew from the newspapers that Beijing was a great city with a long history. However, when I was here, I felt a completely different international city.

In 2 weeks the students will study Chinese, traditional martial arts and calligraphy and visit the Forbidden City, the Great Wall, the Ming Tombs, the Temple of Heaven and so on. In such a short time they will not only learn Chinese but also experience the 5000 years’ culture of China.

(Source: the International Office)