President Peng Yuyuan Celebrated the Lantern Festival with Foreign Experts

2019.03.25       Source:        Author:       Hits:

On the occasion of Chinese Lantern Festival, which marks the first full moon of the Chinese Lunar New Year, President Peng Yuyuan and foreign experts such as Academician Guliyev, Academician Briar and Professor Wolfgang, who are involved in Sino-foreign academic projects, guessed English lantern riddles to celebrate this festive day. Participators also include heads of the International Office, the Office of Human Resources and the School of Media & Communication.



During the event, Peng Yuyuan, on behalf of Wuhan Textile University, expressed festive greetings to foreign experts and fully recognized their contributions to WTU in the past year. He added that a soft environment has formed in our university of large scale, new mechanism and good service. That would provide foreign experts with favourable conditions so that they can enjoy a comfortable stay here and pursue scientific research. He hoped that foreign experts would better integrate into the big family of WTU by understanding traditional Chinese culture, bring their strengths into full play and contribute more to the further development of WTU. At the same time, Peng Yuyuan also made requests to the International Office and the Office of Human Resources to actively offer necessary service, further innovate the way service is provided and promote communication so as to play a bonding role between functional departments and foreign experts. Besides, we will continue to improve policies and measures, innovate working mechanisms, improve service levels, focus on high-level innovative talents and bring in more high-level foreign experts.



On behalf of foreign experts, Professor Wolfgang Suboda, a respected expert from Germany , said, “Guess English riddles to welcome the Chinese Lantern Festival. Today we had a special Lantern Festival with all of you. My thanks go to President Peng and heads of relevant functional departments for your care and concern. Various colourful activities carried out by the International Office and the Office of Human Resources have deepened our understanding of Chinese culture and strengthened the cohesion between us and our Chinese colleagues.” Academician Guliyev said that the introduction and support policies formulated by WTU provided a good environment for foreign staff in China . He will strive to play an even more active role in promoting scientific research and raising the teaching standard at WTU.