On the morning of the 20^th, JIA Yuming, secretary of the Party Committee and XIA Mingchao, vice president, met with Christopher David Bussell, vice president of Derby University, and his delegation. On the same morning, vice president XIA met with Jin Yi, vice president of St. Petersburg State University of Economics, and Poliakova Irina, vice president of Lipetsk State Technical University in Russia. On the morning of the 21^st, Xia met with guests from Ubon University in Thailand, Muroran Institute of Technology in Japan, and Benedictine University in the United States. In addition, 18 guests from 6 overseas partner universities were invited to attend the celebrations of the 75^th anniversary of the university.