In order to promote in-depth exchanges and cooperation between the Faculty of Law of the City University of Macao and the Faculty of Law of Southeast University, on 5 August 2024, Professor Ip Kwai Ping, Vice-President of the City University of Macao, Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies, Dean of the Institute of Portuguese Language Studies, and Director of the Macao Centre for Socio-Economic Development, paid a visit to the Faculty of Law of Southeast University, and the Institute for Human Rights Studies.

   Professor Liu Qichuan, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Law School of Southeast University, Professor Ouyang Benqi, Dean of the Law School of Southeast University, Professor Gong Xianghe, Executive Director of the Human Rights Research Institute, Associate Professor Yu Wentjie, Assistant to the Dean, and Associate Researcher Zhu Shanshan attended this meeting. The meeting was chaired by Secretary Liu Qichuan.

At the beginning of the meeting, Professor Ouyang Benqi, Dean of the Faculty of Law, delivered a welcome speech. Dean Ouyang Benqi expressed his warm welcome to President Ye Guiping's visit. He further introduced the construction of the Law School of Southeast University, mainly including the achievements in discipline construction, talent cultivation, scientific and technological innovation, and faculty construction. He said that the Law School of Southeast University attaches great importance to the cultivation of talents related to the rule of law in foreign countries, and has established cooperative relationships with more than ten overseas universities. Southeast University School of Law and City University of Macau have a broad prospect of cooperation, and hope that both sides can further enhance exchanges and cooperation in the future, strengthen the complementary advantages, and achieve win-win development.

At the meeting, Professor Gong Xianghe, Executive Director of the Human Rights Research Institute, shared his experience on the achievements made in the construction of the Human Rights Research Institute of Southeast University. Relying on the School of Law of Southeast University, the Human Rights Research Institute of Southeast University has been established as a national base for human rights education and training, focusing on the construction of China's independent human rights theoretical system, promoting the dissemination of China's human rights discourse, and carrying out research on interdisciplinary digital human rights and other emerging fields, which has achieved good research results and accumulated valuable construction experience.

Immediately after that, Associate Professor Yu Wenjie, assistant to the Dean, further introduced the School of Law's reliance on our international exchange work to carry out co-operation projects with schools outside China, and shared the School's innovations in the ways and means of foreign co-operation as well as its notable achievements.

President of the City University of Macau, Mr Ye Guiping, introduced the construction progress and achievements of the City University of Macau since its establishment, and highly appreciated the achievements of the School of Law and the Institute of Human Rights of the Southeast University in the fields of discipline construction, talent cultivation, and transformation of achievements. President Ye Guiping said that the research was very fruitful, and that the institutional advantage of ‘one country, two systems’ of Macao SAR provided great convenience for the development of the City University of Macao, and he hoped that the two sides could further strengthen exchanges and co-operation in the future.

During the meeting, the two sides also exchanged views and shared valuable experiences on co-operation in running schools, mutual recruitment of teachers and exchange of students. In the end, Mr Liu Qichuan, the secretary of the university, once again expressed his heartfelt welcome to President Ye's visit, and said that the survey had enabled both sides to have a full understanding of each other, and reached a preliminary consensus on the co-operation between the two sides, and he looked forward to more in-depth and pragmatic exchanges and co-operation between the two sides in the future.

(Zhu Shanshan, Institute of Human Rights, Southeast University)