On November 4th, Professor David Mba, Vice-Chancellor of Birmingham City University in the UK, led a four - member delegation to pay a visit to WTU. Party Secretary Xu Weilin and President Fu Xin of WTU met with the British guests in the Chongzhen Hall of Jianquan Auditorium. Vice President Wang Dong chaired the meeting, and officials from IO and BIFCA of WTU participated in the exchange.

Xu Weilin extended a warm welcome to David Mba and his delegation, expressed heartfelt gratitude to the British side for their long - standing support for the cooperation between the two universities. He noted that professor Mba's second visit to WTU not only witnessed the profound friendship between the two parties but also demonstrated the shared aspiration to deepen cooperation. He expressed the hope that based on the cooperation in the field of art, the two sides could expand the scope of cooperation to cutting - edge disciplines such as engineering and computer science.

Fu Xin looked back on the new progress achieved in the cooperation between the two universities over the past year. He stated that the BIFCA had achieved a breakthrough in optimizing its discipline and major structure. The enrollment scale of the Digital Media Art and Visual Communication majors had been steadily expanding. The joint master's program had completed the application process. The two sides were jointly constructing a high - level platform integrating cross - disciplinary teaching, research, and practice, aiming to extend the cooperation from "joint talent cultivation" to "joint scientific research innovation". He put forward three expectations for the next stage of cooperation: First, integrate resources to promote the integrated development of the art discipline; second, promote the implementation of the joint master's program; third, jointly establish the teaching and research platform to achieve a substantial breakthrough in scientific research cooperation.

David Mba expressed his sincere gratitude for the warm hospitality extended by WTU and highly commended the continuous investment and improvement of educational conditions demonstrated by WTU in the construction of BIFCA. He pointed out that the current deep integration of art design and AI technologies is guiding the transformation trend of the global fashion industry. The British side attaches great importance to the long - term partnership with WTU and hopes that the two sides can further deepen cooperation in areas such as curriculum co - construction, talent cultivation, and research cooperation, thereby enhancing the innovative development of fashion education in both China and the UK.

During the discussion, Li Wanjun, dean of BIFCA presented a report on the institute's enrollment, cultivation, and operation. Professor David Mba held a symposium and communication session with teachers and student representatives from the institute.

Established in 2015, Wuhan Textile University Birmingham Institute of Fashion and Creative Art is the first Sino - foreign cooperative education institution at the undergraduate level in Hubei Province. Over the past decade of operation, the institute has cultivated more than 3,000 high level creative design talents. In 2021, the institute successfully passed the evaluation by the Ministry of Education of P.R.C.with outstanding achievements, and its educational quality and social reputation have been continuously enhanced. This visit by Professor David Mba and his delegation symbolized a further deepening of the partnership between the two sides.