President Cao Yumin warmly welcomed domestic and foreign guests for their visits. In the welcome speech, he introduced the university’s international cooperation and exchanges in recent years, especially the effective measures taken in running sino-foreign collaborative schools and cultivating international talents with countries along the “Belt and Road” countries such as South Africa, Malaysia and Pakistan. Cao Yumin said that the university will continue to explore new modes of international education, create platforms for educational cooperation and exchange and form a long-term mechanism of human communication with our partners to promote mutual understanding of each other's culture, enhance friendship, and actively assist the country to jointly implement the “Belt and Road Initiative” initiative.

Nicy Bai, CEO of ICCCM and Eva Handriyantini, president of STIKI Malang respectively introduced the educational and cultural exchanges between China and Malaysia, and the development status of higher vocational education in Indonesia. As one representative of outstanding research institutes, Jiao Yang, director of the Shenzhen Robotics Association, delivered a speech titled “China's International Development of Intelligent Manufacturing Professional Standards and Talent Services”. Moan Sam Oeurn, president of Industrial Technical Institute, gave a thematic speech titled “International Cooperation—Another Key Factor in Developing of Technical Human Resources in Cambodia”.

At the meeting, Cao Yumin, Nicy Bai, Betty Dewi Puspasari from APTIKOM East Java, Yi Bo (general manager of Shenzhen ADTECH ), Xie Xiaohui (general manager of Suzhou Huikong Technology Co., Ltd) jointly launched the inaugural ceremony of Southeast Asia Vocational Education and Industry-Education Integration Alliance. The alliance will build exchange and cooperation platforms for sharing educational information and academic resources, promote the bidirectional flow of alliance units, and explore new mechanisms for training talents across nations and schools. Suzhou Vocational University is the executive chairman unit of the alliance and holds the alliance secretariat.