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President Jiang Meets Harvard President

Chinese President Jiang Zemin met Monday evening with Lawrence Summers, president of Harvard University, and his party. The two sides reached a consensus that educational exchanges between China and the United States have a great potential and might also help push forward the Sino-US relations.

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Chinese President Jiang Zemin met Monday evening with Lawrence Summers, president of Harvard University, and his party.

Brief Introduction of Harvard University

Harvard University is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. Founded 16 years after the arrival of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, the University has grown from nine students with a single master to an enrollment of more than 18,000 degree candidates, including undergraduates and students in 10 graduate and professional schools. Over 14,000 people work at Harvard, including more than 2,000 faculty.

After extending welcome to the US guests, President Jiang spoke of his visit to Harvard University in 1997, and said that he greatly valued Harvard's contribution to the mutual understanding between the Chinese and American people.

Jiang also briefed Summers and other American guests on China's education reform, the latest achievements in education and challenges his country will faces in the future.

He noted that educational exchanges between China and the United States have a great potential and might also help push forward the Sino-US relations.

Education, especially higher education, would help China with its still greater achievements in the future, said Summers, hoping that his university will continue contributing in this regard.

Sino-US Cooperation in the Fields of Education and Culture

On January 31, 1979, China and the U.S. signed an agreement on culture cooperation between the two countries. Since then, six implementation programs on the cultural exchanges were signed successively. The exchanges have been conducted in almost every category of culture and art, and have developed into a multi-channelled, multi-levelled and multi-formed situation. And such exchanges are increasing both in terms of frequency and scale in recent years.

According to incomplete statistics, up to November 20, 2000, 262 cultural exchange programs were carried out, with 3226 mutual visits, between the two countries, among which 136 programs and 1554 visits were carried out by the Chinese side in the U.S. details

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