At a critical time when our university is comprehensively implementing the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping, the decisions and plans of the Party Central Committee, the Provincial Party Committee, and deeply implementing the tasks of epidemic prevention and control, Professor Steve West, President of the University of the West of England, our partner institution, expressed his condolences to our students and teachers by video.

He firstly sent his sincere greetings to all the students and faculty of our university on behalf of all the students and faculty in the University of the West of England. He pointed out that China is now in a difficult period, and the whole country of China is making hard efforts to overcome the novel corona virus. According to him, the two universities have always maintained good cooperation and have great potential for cooperation. He hoped to continue cooperation with our university during this difficult period and in the future, to provide opportunities for students of both universities to learn from each other and to promote ever closer relations between the two universities.

In May 2018, Prof. Dong Zhaowei Party Secretary of our University led a delegation to visit the University of the West of England, and was warmly welcomed by Prof. Steve West, and the two universities signed a memorandum of cooperation, which laid a solid foundation for the cooperation between the two universities. This time, President Steve West sent a condolence video, reflecting the close cooperation and deep friendship between the two sides.