On Oct. 26-30, the fifth Chinese German Forum: The Cultivation of High-Level Application-Oriented Talents (CDAH) was held in Ningbo University of Technology. Present at the opening ceremony were Wuyan, Director of the Higher Education Evaluation Center of the Ministry of Education, Yu Yongming, Deputy Director of the Zhejiang Provincial Education Department, and Zhang Minghua, Deputy Mayor of Ningbo City. ZUST delegation led by Vice President Zheng Youqu attended the forum.
The forum was sponsored by the Zhejiang Provincial Education Association for International Exchange, hosted by Ningbo University of Technology, and co-hosted by ZUST. The forum focused on the theme of “quality and evaluation of application-oriented universities”. More than 150 experts and scholars from over 30 Chinese and German universities and institutions gathered to discuss over the topics of "construction and development of application-oriented undergraduate education"," quality standards and monitoring of application-oriented undergraduate education", " the cultivation modes of application-oriented talents", and "teaching reform of application-oriented undergraduate education". Prof. Zheng Youqu, vice president of ZUST, made a keynote report on the topic of “the 30-year exploration and practice of Chinese-German cooperation”.
At the closing ceremony, Prof. Zheng Youqu delivered a speech on behalf of ZUST and the office of CDAH, expressing appreciation to the participation of all the representatives, the support of the Zhejiang Provincial Education Department, and the numerous efforts made by all the staff and the conference host: Ningbo University of Technology. He also announced that the 6^th CDAH in 2017 would be organized by Dresden Technical University of Economics.
During the forum, four higher institutions signed to be the new members of the forum, including Fujian University of Technology and College of Applied Science, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology. Until now, the number of CDAH member institutions has come up to 53.