The collaboration is aimed at making use of each other's educational resources and advantages. Under the preconditions of having common objectives, complementary advantages and mutual benefits, both parties will introduce to each other new ideas of running schools, management expertise and operational modes, to broaden the scope of education, to improve teaching and learning quality, and to expand the influence of both parties in international education markets by launching cooperative educational programmes in a number of fields, in various countries including China and Canada,. At present, the bilateral cooperation agreement covers teaching Chinese language and popularizing Chinese culture, cooperating in the courses of hotel and lodging management, talent training, English teaching, and related distance educational training and exchanges.

At the signing ceremony, Secretary Ruan Zhiyong of the Party Committee in the OUC introduced the basic conditions of the OUC to the CIBT partners and expressed OUC's full support to all the programmes included in the cooperation framework and its full confidence in the future of the cooperation.

Professor Dean Duperron, CIBT representative, extended sincere congratulations on the 30th anniversary of OUC at first, and then wore the OUC badges with "30th Anniversary" with other delegation members. He said that CIBT has rich teaching resources and experience of running schools cooperatively and attaches high attention to its cooperation with OUC, and that the CIBT will give all rounded support and guarantee future cooperation.

Reported by Wu Han from the OUC