On December 1, 2016, a signing ceremony for the cooperation agreement between Sichuan University(SCU) and Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University (NNSTU) was held at Jiang’an Campus, SCU. Mr. Dmitriev. Sergey. Mikhailovich, Mr. Celiashayev. Mikhail. Visalyon. Norwich, the President and Vice President of NNSTU, Prof. Xie Heping, the President and Academician of SCU, and Prof. Yan Shijing, the Vice President of SCU, attended the signing ceremony.
President Xie stressed that, as the initiator of the Chinese side for the Alliance of Universities in the Midstream and Upstream Regions of the Yangtze River and the Federal Regions along the Volga River, SCU is willing to further enhance communication and cooperation with Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University--the initiator of the Russian side, and foster more qualified talents to promote the economic and social development based on “the Volga River—the Yangtze River” drainage basin cooperation mechanism, making positive contributions to the sci-tech and culture exchange of the two countries.
President Mikhailovich expressed that, with the concerted efforts of both universities, this Alliance could contribute much to the bilateral development of both countries.