On December 27, SIFT hosted on its Songjiang Campus the Workshop onEducational Cooperation with Middle and Eastern Europe held by theMinistry of Education (MOE). Xu Yonglin, Deputy Director-General,Department of International Cooperation and Exchanges, MOE, HuZhaoming, Counselor, Department of European Affairs, Ministry ofForeign Affairs, Yang Xinyu, Deputy Secretary-General, ChinaScholarship Council, Sun Haiming, SIFT President, Xu Xiaowe, SIFTVice President, as well as leaders and experts from Hanban, FudanUniversity, Southeast University, Zhejiang University, BeijingForeign Studies University and some other institutions attended theworkshop and discussed issues related to educational cooperationand exchanges between China and Middle and Eastern Europe, with aview to scale new heights in this field.