During his reception on Thursday for Mr Shinobu Inanaga, the Chief Director of the Association of Nagasaki Prefectural University, Da Nang Party Committee Deputy Secretary Vo Cong Tri remarked his city and some Japanese localities have jointly boosted exchanges and cooperation in education.

Da Nang Party Committee Permanent Deputy Secretary Vo Cong Tri (right) warmly receiving Mr Shinobu Inanaga, the Chief Director of the Association of Nagasaki Prefectural University

The University of Da Nang (UDN) is currently cooperating with many prestigious Japanese universities. In addition, recent years have seen a growing numbers of students enrolled in the Faculty of the Japanese language at the city’s University of Foreign Languages and Studies.

In particular, Deputy Secretary Tri highly appreciated the fruitful cooperation between the Nagasaki Prefectural University and the UDN over recent years. A number of students from the Japanese university have taken part in internship courses at the municipal Department of Foreign Affairs and other local government agencies.

The host hoped that the Japanese university would continue promoting bilateral exchanges of managerial officers, lecturers and students with Da Nang’s agencies, especially to facilitate the city’s government employees to attend short-term training courses at the Japanese university and to work in prefectural agencies in the coming time.

According to Mr Shinobu Inanaga, 4 students from his university came to Da Nang to serve as volunteers for the APEC Economic Leaders’ Week 2017. Currently, 8 others are taking part in internship programmes at the municipal Department of Foreign Affairs.

Under the ongoing bilateral cooperation programme which started in 2014, groups of senior high school students from Da Nang have also paid visits to the Nagasaki school.

Furthermore, the Nagasaki university has given support to the establishment of a Japanese language school in Nagasaki Prefecture’s Goto City, and offered preferential policies on tuition fee exemptions and scholarships to Vietnamese students studying there.

The Japanese guest pledged that his university would continue implementing many exchanges and cooperation programmes between students of the two sides, and hoped the Da Nang government would create even more favourable conditions for accelerating bilateral ties in the coming years.