One Belt and One Road; We are fighting COVID-19 together with the world.
Under the ongoing COVID-19 in China, with the epidemic prevention and control requirements of the Central Party Committee and Beijing Municipal Government, Beijing University of Technology, together with all teachers and students, has firm confidence to realize a full victory against the epidemic through scientific prevention and control.
On February 6, on behalf of BJUT, President Gonghui Liu wrote to the international partners to explain the university’s policies against the epidemic and express thanks to the international partners for their support for BJUT.
Partners from the countries along the belt and road including Poland, Ukraine, Italy, Korea, Pakistan, and Iran, sent videos, photos and letters to BJUT and expressing confidence and support to teachers and students, and people in Wuhan and China. Below is a brief review of these messages.
Partners from the countries along the belt and road
Silesian University of Technology
Rector Arkadiusz Mezyk,
We are watching with deepest concern the situation caused by the coronavirus. In reference to the official notice from President Gonghui Liu on the Outbreak of Respiratory Illness caused byCOVID-19, the rigorous prevention and control measures, WHO recommendations and IHR requirements, we are impressed with the commitment and determination with which you are dealing with the problem and express our sympathy for your struggle.
Poltava National Technical Yuriy Kondratyuk
Rector Volodymyr Onyshchenko and Vice Rector Sivitska Svitlana, together with the university teachers and students, took a group photo in support of BJUT and China. Go China! Go BJUT!
Opole Confucius Institute and Affiliated Confucius Classrooms
Opole Confucius Institute
Foreign director Ewa Jakuczek and Chinese director Wenjing Gong together with all the staff sent the best wishes.
Opole is with you! Go China!
Students from Opole Confucius Institute.
Primary school Chinese learning students from Krapkowice, Poland
Krapkowice is with you!
University Chinese learning students from Opole Confucius Institute.
Go Wuhan! Go China!
University of Silesia and Confucius Classroom
Jagna Malejka, a Polish teacher in University of Silesia, sent a message cherishing the memorable experience of summer school between BJUT and the US and the First Sino-polish University Consortium Art Festival and Art Design Competition. As a visiting scholar, she is currently in Shanghai and fighting against the epidemic with us.
Students from Silesia Confucius Classrooms.
Go China!
The Universities Attending the Sino-polish University Consortium International Academic Conferences Themed on “Linking Belt and Road, Bonding Tech and Heart”.
From July to November, 2019, BJUT held the first Sino-polish University Consortium International Academic Conferences Themed on “Linking Belt and Road, Bonding Tech and Heart”. Scholars and students from 182 universities and institutes from 24 countries and regions attended the conferences, some of whom sent us their sincere sympathy regarding the epidemic.
Milan Bicocca University, Italy
Alice Roitenberg, young scholar from Milan Bicocca University, sent the wishes with classmates. Go BJUT ! Go China!
Kyonggi University
Kyung Hyun Nam, the director of International Office, Kyonggi University took a video with colleagues to BJUT.
Hello, everyone! I am Kyung Hyun Nam, the director of International Office, Kyonggi University. As we know, China has faced the difficult situation ofCOVID-19. We hope our friends and Chinese students would have the courage to fight against the epidemic and be safe and sound.
Iran University of Science Technology
Taliya Sahihi from Iran University of Science Technology sent us a photo.
I would like to extend my heartfelt sympathies to you and the entire Chinese nation in their difficult times. My heart and my thoughts are with you and the families who suffer.
I know China has advanced technology and great researchers and I am sure you will overcome this crisis soon.
BJUT International Alumni
Hong Qi, BJUT international Alumni, is now the director of Institute of Advanced Materials,Bahaudin Zakaria University, in Pakistan. He sent email and video taken with his teachers and students.
Dear Teacher
I wish that Wuhan and China will succeed very quickly in the fight againstCOVID-19outbreak.
I am sending my special video message and prayers for the Chinese nation in this difficult time.
Kindly convey my message and love to the city of Wuhan and all Chinese friends.
Pakistan-China’s friendship is indeed Higher than the mountains, deeper than the ocean and sweeter than honey.
The institute took video themed on Solidarity with China.
To our dear Chinese friends,
In this difficult time, we send this special message to the city of Wuhan and the Chinese nation show our solidarity. Please stay strong and keep fighting! We are sending our wishes to you! Specially for my university Beijing University of Technology, I want to remind the international faculties and student to please stay inside. If you have to go outside, please wear face masks and keep safe. Special message to my university, BJUT would a bright future. Go Wuhan! Go China!
In April, 2019, on the opening ceremony of the Second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, President Xi Jinping quoted “plants with strong roots grow well, and efforts with the right focus will ensure success.” The joint pursuit of the Belt and Road Initiative aims to enhance connectivity and practical cooperation. It is about jointly meeting various challenges and risks confronting mankind and delivering win-win outcomes and common development.
With the sincere wishes of the partners from the Belt and Road countries, we firmly believe in fighting COVID-19 to a final victory.
We hope the epidemic will be over by the coming spring. We welcome all partners and friends to mark BJUT’s 60thanniversary and to make a bright future together!
