HEZE, September 21, 2026 — The Sino-Belarusian Agricultural Tech-Engineering Institute of Heze University held the opening ceremony for its Class of 2026 on the afternoon of September 21 in the lecture hall of the university library, with the Belarusian State Agricultural Academy joining online. Leaders of both universities, heads of relevant departments, faculty representatives and all incoming students attended the ceremony.
Yin Chunguang, President of Heze University, delivers an address at the opening ceremony of the Institute.
Yin Chunguang, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Committee and President of Heze University, extended a warm welcome to the new students of the Class of 2026 on behalf of the university. She said the Institute is a flagship platform for the university’s international education and an important step in deepening educational exchange and innovating cross-border collaborative talent cultivation. She encouraged the students to make the most of the Institute’s distinctive Sino-foreign cooperative platform, broaden their international horizon, sharpen their professional skills and cultivate an innovative mindset, so as to grow into high-quality, application-oriented talents who can work across Chinese and international contexts and combine knowledge with action.
Vitaly Viktorovich, Rector of the Belarusian State Agricultural Academy, delivered an address by video. He congratulated the Institute on its successful launch and the students on starting a new journey of study, noting that the cooperation between the two universities is a fruitful outcome of China–Belarus educational exchange. The Academy, he said, will pool its strengths in teaching and research to advance joint teaching and research efforts, and to cultivate internationally minded professionals who meet the needs of modern agricultural development.
Huang Fufeng, Secretary of the CPC Committee of Heze University, and Fu Yuanzhai, Member of the CPC Committee, Vice President of the university and Dean of the Institute, jointly unveiled the plaque of the Institute, marking the point at which this platform for Sino-foreign cooperative education entered a new chapter of sincere cooperation in talent cultivation between the two universities.
Huang Fufeng and Fu Yuanzhai unveil the plaque of the Institute.
The ceremony was presided over by Li Li, Director of the Office of International Exchange and Cooperation. Speaking on behalf of the new students, Li Yating shared her thoughts on joining the university, saying that she would treasure the Institute’s international education opportunities, focus on her professional studies, consolidate her language foundation and build cross-cultural communication skills, and study diligently to pursue her dreams and serve as a young ambassador of China–Belarus friendship.
Going forward, the university will continue to give full play to the distinctive strengths of its Sino-foreign cooperative education, deepen cooperation with the Belarusian State Agricultural Academy in teaching reform, research collaboration and people-to-people exchanges, and work to build a model of international educational cooperation in the field, contributing to modern agricultural development and to the traditional friendship between China and Belarus.
Li Li presides over the opening ceremony for the Class of 2026.
