Zhang Wenjun Attends 15th Anniversary Celebration of Sino-France 4+4 Program

On October 23, the 15th Anniversary Celebration of Sino-France 4+4 Program was held at Southwest Jiao Tong University. SJTU Vice President Zhang Wenjun attended the celebration.

On behalf of SJTU, Zhang Wenjun renewed the dual-degree agreement with the 5 Ecole Centrales of France.

After the ceremony, Zhang Wenjun and Christopher Cripps, Dean of International Affairs of Ecole Centrale Paris, co-hosted the Sino-France Presidents Forum which aimed to share characteristics and experience in Chinese and French engineer education.

The Sino-France 4+4 Program was brought into effect in 1996. That October, witnessed by the Ministry of Education of China and the Ministry of education of France, four Chinese universities (Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Xi'an Jiao Tong University and Southwest Jiao Tong University) and four French universities (Ecole Centrale de Paris, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Ecole Centrale de Nantes and Ecole Centrale de Lille) signed the dual-degree cooperation agreement.

In 2006, Ecole Centrale de Marseilles joined the Program. Till now, the four Chinese universities have sent 495 students to study in the above five French universities while the Ecole Centrales have sent 98 students to study in the four Chinese universities since 1999.