Innovation Center for China-US Youth Exchange launched at Tsinghua

The Innovation Center for China-US Youth Exchange was launched at Tsinghua University on March 24th. As one of the outcomes of the first China-US Social and Cultural Dialogue, the Center was initiated by Tsinghua, one of the 19 universities and organizations in China that signed up to build the project.

Mr. Fang Jun, Deputy Director of the Department of International Cooperation and Exchanges of the Chinese Ministry of Education, attended the launching ceremony and delivered the opening remarks, saying that both the Chinese and US governments put a premium on youth exchange and cooperation on innovation and entrepreneurship. He expected Tsinghua would build the Center as a base to promote the two countries’ innovation and entrepreneurship education, as a base for the universities to serve regional and community development, and as a base for young people from the two countries to communicate and learn from each other.

Tsinghua has been committed to innovation and entrepreneurship education since the late 1990s, and it has contributed substantially to the deepening reform of education. Tsinghua will take this opportunity to further promote reform and to contribute to the two countries’ educational exchange, noted Mr. Yang Bin, Vice President of Tsinghua, in his address.

Editor: Zhu Lvhe