On September 2, under the witness of Sayasat Nurbek, Minister of Science and Higher Education of Kazakhstan, Chen Yulu, President of Nankai University, and Yerlan Sydykov, Rector of L.N.Gumilyov Eurasian National University (ENU), signed a strategic cooperation agreement. The agreement aims to deepen collaboration in cooperative-run educational projects and academic exchanges, and to put into practice the consensus on deepening educational and sci-tech cooperation between China and Kazakhstan.

Prior to the signing ceremony, Chen Yulu held talks with Sayasat Nurbek. Yerlan Sydykov, Rector of ENU, and Chen Jun, Vice-President of NKU, also attended the meeting.

Chen Yulu provided an overview of Nankai University’s overall educational development and its work in international exchanges and cooperation. He highlighted ENU’s role as a key strategic partner and the fruitful results of their collaboration in cooperative-run educational projects, faculty-student exchanges, and talent cultivation, noting that the first cohort of students for the two joint master degree programs would enroll this September. Chen also underscored Kazakhstan’s status as China’s permanent comprehensive strategic partner, a founding member of the Belt and Road Initiative, and a founding member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), expressing hope to expand exchanges with more high-quality Kazakh universities and research institutions.

Minister Nurbek highly praised the longstanding educational cooperation between NKU and ENU. He expressed hope that the two universities would serve as a driving force in implementing the high-level consensus of the Chinese and Kazakh leaders, aimed at steadfastly strengthening bilateral friendship and leveraging the stability and positive influence of China-Kazakhstan relations to promote regional and global peace and development. He also encouraged NKU, as a leading Chinese university, to pursue comprehensive, multidimensional cooperation with Kazakh institutions to further higher education and cultural exchanges between the two countries.

Founded in 1996 in Astana, L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University is one of the most influential universities in Kazakhstan and Central Asia. The university comprises 13 schools, including natural sciences, economics, law, mechanics and mathematics, and physics and technology, and currently has over 15,000 students and more than 2,000 teaching and facutly members.

（Edited and translated by Nankai News Team.)