On the afternoon of December 4th, a delegation of four people led by Naweed Zaman, President of National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan and Ata ur Rahman, Counsellor of Pakistani Embassy in China, visited Beihang University. Beihang President Huang Haijun, as well as relative representatives from the International Division, International School, School of Cyberspace Security and School of BeiDou and the Silk Road, met the guests at the conference center of New Main Building.

Vice President Huang extended his warm welcome to President Zaman and reviewed the cooperation between NUST and Beihang, especially the progress achieved since the two universities signed the memorandum of cooperation on jointly building the School of BeiDou and the Silk Road at the One Belt and One Road International Cooperation Summit Forum last year. He also expressed his hope to further deepen the cooperation with NUST in the fields of talent cultivation, scientific research, and so on.

President Zaman noted that NUST attached great importance to establishing close cooperative partnership with Beihang. He highly praised the cooperative results accomplished between the two universities, and hoped that both sides would conduct deeper level of cooperation and further promote people-to-people exchanges. Following him, leaders from the School of Cyberspace Security and School of BeiDou and the Silk Road introduced the current development of their schools and future cooperation plans, respectively.

After the meeting, the delegation toured the Lunar Palace 1 laboratory at Beihang University.

Founded in 1991, the National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan is a top research university in Pakistan, with its main campus located in Islamabad. It is a comprehensive university covering engineering, science, business, management, social science and other disciplines.

Reported by Cao Qizheng

Photographed by Han Siyu

Reviewed by Lyu Ying

Edited by Jia Aiping

Translated by Lyu Xingyun