On the afternoon of December 9th, Vice President Christopher Wigginton of Ulster University in the UK led a delegation to visit Wuhan Textile University（WTU）. Vice President Wang Dong met with the British guests at Jianquan Hall.

Wang Dong extended a warm welcome to Christopher Wigginton and his team, and introduced the development achievements under the guidance of the concepts of strengthening the university through science and open education. He pointed out that in the environment of globalized education, deepening high-level international cooperation is an important path to promote talent cultivation and subject construction. He expressed the expectation that WTU and Ulster University would take the opportunity of cooperative education to promote curriculum integration, mutual learning of teaching staff and scientific research collaboration, and jointly build a standardized and sustainable international joint training mechanism to provide students with a more diverse and integrated international education platform.

Christopher Wigginton expressed his sincere gratitude for the warm reception and highly praised the achievements made by WTU in talent cultivation and scientific research. He said that Ulster University has always attached great importance to establishing partnerships with outstanding universities around the world and hoped that this visit would be the starting point to promote the application for cooperative education in the common areas of interest, especially in the practical cooperation of sharing teaching resources and bilateral student exchanges.

During the meeting, both sides exchanged views on key issues such as subject alignment, recruitment numbers of students, and curriculum co-construction around the core links of cooperative education and reached a preliminary consensus. Both sides agreed that they would strengthen communication and cooperation in the future to accelerate the implementation of the cooperation framework and details, and jointly promote the application and implementation of the cooperation project earlier.

During the visit, Christopher Wigginton and his team visited the Textile Science and Technology Museum.