Russian and Chinese officials met in St. Petersburg in order to sign a memorandum of R&D collaboration. Then Yury Kolesnikov, Vice Rector for academic and administrative work, and Xu Fei, SWJTU rector, discussed potential joint research projects.

Russian and Chinese parties negotiated to organize academic exchange programs in the field of Information Technologies.

Southwest Jiaotong University is at the top of RWU ranking. It is one of the leading Chinese IT universities. Its students are winners of ACM ICPC as ITMO University programmers who became six-time ACM ICPC champions.

“After Yury Kolesnikov`s visiting SWJTU in May 2015, our Chinese colleagues initiated this meeting. They appreciated achievements of ITMO University programmers and opticians,” noted Margarita Poylova, analyst of Center for Asian Cooperation.

 

Daria Sankova

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