On May 17, Ebolo Emmanuel, the Consul General of the Republic of Congo in Guangzhou, and his delegation visited Guangxi University and had a symposium with professors in GXU. Ma Xianli, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Guangxi University attended and presided over the symposium.

At the symposium, Ma Xianli welcomed the visit of the Consul General and his delegation, introduced the history of Guangxi University, as well as its establishment of schools and disciplines, and its school-running characteristics to Mr. Ebolo Emmanuel. After that, Ma highlighted our international development path of "engaging deep into ASEAN and facing the world". He hoped that the two sides can make thorough exchanges on the cooperation in running schools between Guangxi University and universities in the Republic of the Congo and promote the implementation of the cooperation projects between universities and colleges from both countries.

Mr. Emmanuel said that the government and universities of the Republic of Congo attach great importance to this visit and symposium and look forward to strengthening cooperation with Guangxi University in international education. He introduced the national conditions of the Republic of the Congo and its development of education. He also invited Guangxi University to visit the Republic of the Congo to provide valuable experience for the development of education for their universities.

At the meeting, the two sides reached consensus on the cooperate with Marien Ngouabi University and Sassou University in the Republic of the Congo, and held in-depth negotiations on personnel training cooperation in agriculture, infrastructure construction and other fields.

Before the symposium, Consul General Ebolo Emmanuel also visited Guangxi University History Museum and the large-scale structural experimental research platform of the School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, fully understanding the development history of Guangxi University and the current construction achievements of "double first-class" disciplines. He highly praised the beautiful campus environment of Guangxi University.

Faculties in charge of the International Cooperation and Exchange Department of GXU, the School of Agriculture and the School of Civil Engineering and Architecture participated in the above events.