On the afternoon of August 28, Jan Thomas, President of Massey University in New Zealand, and her delegation visited our Tianjin Campus. Han Xu, Secretary of the Party Committee of the university, and Ma Guowei, Vice President of the university, met with the delegation at the Beichen Campus, and the two sides signed a Memorandum of Cooperation on the construction of the "New Zealand Campus of HEBUT". Vice President Ma Guowei presided over the seminar and the signing ceremony, and relevant persons in charge of the Office of International Exchange and Cooperation, College of International Education, College of Electronic Information Engineering, College of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, College of Electrical Engineering and Langfang Campus accompanied the meeting and witnessed the signing ceremony.

First of all, Han Xu expressed his warm welcome to Prof. Jan Thomas' visit, and said that it has been 16 years since the cooperation between the two schools, and both sides have always been upholding the concept of sincere, pragmatic, friendly, and win-win cooperation, and have become indispensable partners in the process of each other's development by joining hands to make progress together. This year is the 120th anniversary of HEBUT, which is a new starting point and a new beginning for the university. Under the situation of friendship and cooperation between China and New Zealand, HEBUT hopes to play a greater role in the exchanges and cooperation between the two countries in the fields of education and humanities. At the important moment of the 120th anniversary of the founding of HEBUT, it is a milestone to jointly start a new journey of cooperation between the two universities, which also marks that the cooperation between the two sides has entered a new stage of high-quality development.

Jan Thomas expressed her gratitude to HEBUT for the warm reception. She said that through years of joint efforts and cooperation, the two sides have made a lot of achievements in scientific research, education and student cultivation, and the students jointly cultivated have become the backbone of the future to change the world, and the cooperation between the two sides has realized mutual benefit and win-win situation. During this visit, she deeply felt that there are a lot of similarities between Massey University and HEBUT, both of which are closely combining scientific research and education with industrial needs, creating value for social development, and actively promoting industrial development and social progress. She hoped that through the signing of this memorandum of cooperation, the two sides could continue to consolidate and deepen their cooperation in the future. Finally, she thanked Hebei University of Technology again for the invitation and the trust and efforts made between the two universities for a long time, and looked forward to more achievements in the future cooperation.

The "New Zealand Campus of HEBUT" built by HEBUT in cooperation with Massey University will be the second overseas campus of HEBUT after the Finland Campus. In the future, the two universities will further strengthen cooperation in scientific research, education and teaching, academic seminars, faculty exchanges, etc., give full play to the advantages of their respective disciplines, and jointly promote the cultivation of high-level talents. The university will adhere to and carry forward the Chinese characteristics in the process of promoting high-quality higher education to go abroad, integrating the excellent traditional Chinese culture and the connotation of the times into the school running programs, and at the same time, deeply borrowing and learning from the educational concepts and achievements of the world's high-level universities, to create a new all-around international cooperative school running pattern integrating teaching, scientific research, humanistic exchanges and service to the society, and to build a new model of Sino-New Zealand cooperation in higher education.

President Jan Thomas and his delegation also visited several key laboratories of HEBUT.