On the afternoon of September 21, Mayor Julio Alak of La Plata, Argentina, and his delegation visited our university. Guo Jianhua, President of BTBU, met with Mayor Julio Alak and his delegation at the Fucheng Road Campus.

Guo Jianhua extended a warm welcome to Julio Alak and his delegation. He introduced our university’s history, educational philosophy, disciplinary development, research platforms, and internationalization efforts, with a focus on its distinctive strengths in food science and light industry and its achievements in technology transfer. He noted that China and Argentina have increasingly close exchanges in trade, science and education, and culture. La Plata, as the capital of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, has a rich cultural heritage and abundant educational resources. The National University of La Plata has a strong foundation in food science and agricultural and animal husbandry research. He hoped that both sides could strengthen faculty-student exchanges and research cooperation in the agri-food sector, promote shared and mutually beneficial research outcomes, and deepen educational and research exchanges, making them a valuable practice in local friendly exchanges between China and Argentina.

Mayor Julio Alak expressed his gratitude to President Guo Jianhua for the warm reception. He appreciated highly of China’s development achievements in recent years and introduced the history and current situation of Argentina and La Plata. He noted that La Plata, as one of Argentina’s important agricultural regions, has abundant agricultural product resources, but its agricultural modernization conditions remain relatively weak. Beijing Technology and Business University has strong research capabilities in food science and light industry. He hoped that through government-to-government exchanges, a cooperation platform between the university and the locality, as well as between universities, could be established to carry out research cooperation and exchanges in vegetable and fruit cultivation, preservation, and transportation. The National University of La Plata has close ties with Chinese universities and also hopes to promote faculty-student exchanges and mutual understanding between the two universities through relevant cooperation.

Afterwards, the two sides held in-depth discussions on international research cooperation and faculty-student exchanges, laying a solid foundation for future cooperation.

Before the meeting, Julio Alak and his delegation visited the National Wine Museum of our university, where they learned in detail about our university’s technological heritage and innovative achievements in wine making and food processing.

Attendees included Juan Amondarain, former Senator of Buenos Aires Province and former President of the Justicialist Party Senate Bloc; Francisco García Montes, Undersecretary of International Relations of La Plata; Long Minli, Chinese Director of the Confucius Institute at the National University of La Plata; Wu Hui, First‑Class Principal Staff Member of the Pacific Rim Affairs Division, Beijing Municipal Foreign Affairs Office; He Dongmeng, Director, and Cao Yan, Deputy Director of the Office of International Exchange and Cooperation, BTBU; Weng Yunxuan, Dean of the School of New Materials and Future Technology & Director of the Natural Science Division, BTBU, as well as a professor from the School of Food and Health.

        Source: https://www.btbu.edu.cn/news/zhxw/5e97868ccca84c4593bc0c0f6c46dc6a.htm