May 28, 2005   China's State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs Delegation visit Stanford University and San Jose State University  
         
      Headed by Mr. Zhaohua Sun, Deputy Director-General of China's State Administration of Foreign ExpertsAffairs (SAFEA), the delegation visited Stanford University and San Jose State University on May 17 and 25. According to Mr. Sun that China is intersted in sending more high officials to California famous universities for training. Mr. Yaomin Li, Deputy Director of Overseas Training, SAFEA and Mr. Zhixue Xiong, Department Director of the SAFEA Training Center accompanied Mr. Sun for the visits. The Foundation's officers joined delegations' visits.  
         
  January 20, 2005   Hunan Government Officer's Training Group Begins Study and Life in San Jose  
         
      Hunan government officer's training group arrived in San Jose today for a 6 month training  
      program of public administration in San Jose State University. The group consists of 28 officials from different governemt departments. USCFIE is one of the major sponsors of the program.  
         
         
  January 11, 2005   Successful Survey and Training in American Higher Education  
         
 

 

 

  

From November 4 to December 3, 2004, the Presidents Delegation of China Universities paid a successful visit to the United States for a survey to the leadership, development strategies and fund-raising of American well-known universities.

Under the guidance of Chinese State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs and Ministry of Education, this visit program was conducted by US-China Foundation of International Exchanges (USCFIE) and coordinated by San Francisco U.S.-China Exchange Council (USCEC).

The delegation, consisted of 24 presidents from China elite universities, attended 20 seminars and round-table discussions with eight top U.S. universities: Stanford University, UC Berkeley, UC Los Angles (USLA), UC San Diego (UCSD), University of Southern California (USC), CSU Los Angeles, Temple University, Columbia University. They also held a series of meetings with U. S. Department of Education, California Postsecondary Education Commission, and Department of San Francisco of Education, San Francisco United School District, etc.

Mr. Wang Ying, President of USCFIE, and Mr. Byron Athan, Chairman of USCEC hosted the first welcome dinner for this Delegation. Dr. John Hennessy, President of Stanford University gave an opening remark on the first day in Stanford-week. Dr. Andy Ge presented the first orientation lecture to the delegation. Mr. Alex Huang, Secretary General of USCEC, acted as an operating chief, major interpreter and coordinator, escorted the delegation’s entire trip in the U.S.