Enhancing the cooperative relationship between VNU-USSH and leading universities in China

At the headquarters of the Chinese Ministry of Education in Beijing, Minister Nguyen Kim Son and the delegation held talks with Chinese Minister of Education Hoai Tien Bang. At the talks between the two Ministers of Education, the two sides assessed that after 15 years since the establishment of the Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership, the Vietnam-China relationship has developed to a new height, all areas of cooperation have achieved many important achievements, in which, cooperation in education and training is very substantive, increasingly in-depth and has outstanding results based on the strategic orientation of the leaders of the two countries for this field. On the same afternoon, at Peking University, a Vietnam-China Higher Education Cooperation Seminar was held with the participation of leaders of the two Ministries of Education, functional departments and agencies, and many leading universities of the two countries. On this occasion, the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (VNU) signed a cooperation agreement with Peking University and Beijing University of Foreign Studies on training and research in the fields of social sciences and humanities, exchange of lecturers and students, and strengthening cooperation in Chinese and Vietnamese language training. In the 2024-2025 academic year, both Peking University and Beijing University of Foreign Studies are sending Vietnamese language students to study at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, VNU.   Peking University is the top university in China and ranked 17th in the world according to QS Rankings 2024. In particular, the Vietnamese language department of the Foreign Language Institute started training undergraduates in 1949, being the first university in China to open a Vietnamese language department.