Vice Rector Kong Fanqing Leads a Delegation to Visit the VNU University of Social Sciences and Humanities and Attend an International Seminar

The seminar focused on the relationship between "population migration" and "tourism development" and the development space, trends, future opportunities and challenges they will bring to "sustainable social development". Prof. Michael Hitchcock at the Goldsmiths College of the University of London, Prof. Adele Ladkin at the Bournemouth University in the UK, and Prof. Noel Salazar at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium delivered keynote speeches at the seminar respectively.

The VNU University of Social Sciences and Humanities is the most famous university in Vietnam specializing in humanities and social sciences. There are 15 disciplines in the university, including journalism, tourism, orientalism, Hán Nôm, history, archives and secretarial management, linguistics, management science, international studies, psychology, book information, philosophy, Vietnamese as a foreign language and Vietnamese culture, writing and sociology.

The Bournemouth University is a well-known public university in the UK. It won the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 1994 and 2011. It ranks among the top 500 universities in the world in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015, top 150 young universities in the world, and it is the second largest university in the UK in terms of graduate employment rate.

We look forward to promoting the exchange of higher education between Macao and Vietnam and laying a good foundation for further communication between CityU and Vietnamese universities through this seminar. CityU will continue to pay attention to the progress of the seminar, please stay tuned for follow-up reports.