Recently, a delegation led by Zhang Di, Guangxi-ASEAN representative of Hong Kong’s Sunwah Group and Secretary-General of the Guangxi Branch of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Entrepreneurs Alliance, visited GXU. Xu Huarui, Secretary of the CPC GXU Committee, met with Zhang Di and the delegation. The two sides held in-depth discussions on implementing the GXU-Sunwah Group Cultural Exchange Fund, promoting educational, scientific, and cultural exchanges with ASEAN, and advancing the digital development of GXU’s University History Museum.

Xu Huarui thanked Sunwah Group for its strong support for GXU and introduced the university’s development of education oriented toward ASEAN, the development of its advantageous disciplines, and its efforts to contribute to building a closer China-Vietnam community with a shared future of strategic significance. He said that establishing the GXU-Sunwah Group Cultural Exchange Fund and jointly developing the Jonathan Choi ASEAN Cooperation Center would provide an important vehicle for Guangxi and Hong Kong to work together in building a closer China-ASEAN community with a shared future. GXU will make every effort to advance concrete cooperation projects, including the digital development of its University History Museum and study visits and exchanges for young people from ASEAN. It will also explore new forms of university-enterprise cooperation based on complementary resources and mutual empowerment, creating shared benefits through the development of GXU’s disciplines and the expansion of enterprise industries.

Zhang Di thanked GXU for its support for the cooperation projects on behalf of Sunwah Group. She said that the group attaches great importance to its strategic partnership with GXU. GXU has cultivated distinctive strengths in education oriented toward ASEAN for many years, while Sunwah Group has an extensive industrial presence in Vietnam, giving the two sides broad prospects for cooperation. She expressed the hope that they would respond to Vietnam’s industrial needs, explore industry-university-research cooperation opportunities in civil engineering, advanced materials, marine economy, and other fields, facilitate the commercialization and industrialization of scientific research achievements, and use these efforts as a foundation for further advancing cultural exchanges between young people in China and Vietnam.