President Yu Zhigang (Right) and President KIM Young-seup

sign MOU on strategic partnership

OUC President Yu Zhigang met with President KIM Young-seup of South Korean Pukyong National University in OUC Laoshan Campus on January 12, 2017, signing the MOU of strategic partnership after fruitful talks on bilateral cooperation and rotating affairs of the International Alliance of Marine-Related Institutions (IAMRI).

President Yu Zhigang said that OUC and PKNU have a long history of cooperation and match each other in scales and disciplinary setups especially the achievement in marine and fisheries sciences, both ranking high in two countries respectively. The prospect of cooperation is also bright in humanistic and social sciences. The geographical vicinity facilitates the cooperative research and faculty-students communication. President Yu congratulated President KIM on his new position as the Rotating Chairman of IAMRI and expressed his gratitude to PKNU for its generous support to IAMRI in the past years. He expected OUC and PKNU to have more cooperation thanks to IAMRI. President Yu also said that both schools can develop hand in hand by learning from each other and complementing each other when FAO World Fisheries University will be established in PKNU and OUC’s 4th Campus will be set up in the West Coast of Qingdao.

President KIM Young-seup said that mutual exchanges have been effective for many years in many fields due to similar disciplines of the two schools and favorable vicinity of China and South Korea. He believed that OUC-PKNU cooperation will be expanded into more areas following the establishment of the strategic partnership. Thankful to OUC for handing over IAMRI to PKNU, President KIM said that PKNU is ready to take it over as its professional staff are already in place. He hoped to do better in running IAMRI together with OUC and supported by OUC.

During the meeting, President Yu Zhigang and President KIM Young-seup listened to the comments and reports on how to deepen the mutual cooperation, made by leaders of the fisheries and marine life colleges of OUC and PKNU before listening to IAMRI Secretariat on its handing over affairs and the annual report.

Present at the meeting were OUC Vice President Li Huajun, college leaders of fisheries, marine life, food science and engineering, and Director of the International Office.

By Liu Yue

Photo by Li Huachang

Translated by Liang Hong