On the afternoon of December 4, fourpostgraduates from the Integrated Cultural Diversity Project of Humanities Science at the University of Tokyo in Japan visited Shanghai Ocean University, led by Prof. Togio Nigami and Dr. Keiko Mizuno of the University of Tokyo, and had exchanges of ideas with thepostgraduates from the College of Economics and Management，College of Marine Sciences and College of Law Sciences of SHOU.
Before the idea-exchange meeting, Prof.Zhong Junsheng, Director of the Office of International Exchange, on behalf ofthe school, expressed warm welcome to the teachers and students from theUniversity of Tokyo and introduced SHOU’s 100-year history, the status quo ofdevelopment, admission as a double first-class university and SHOU's future development Goals and vision. Togio Nigami thanked SHOU forthe careful arrangement of this exchange event and introduced the developmentobjective of the Integrated Cultural Diversity Project of HumanitiesScience. At the same time, he hoped our graduate students could also bethe exchange members of this project and communicate with the students at theUniversity of Tokyo. Both sides said they would further strengthencommunication and mutual understanding and establish good cooperative relationsin academic exchanges and personnel training.
The Sino-Japanese postgraduate exchangemeeting started in the way of self-introduction. After communicating with eachother on specialty, research field and hometown, the postgraduaterepresentative from the University of Tokyo asked our graduate students fortheir views on the changes in Shanghai in recent years. Our graduate studentsresponded from their personal experience of Shanghai's transportation, culture,living convenience and comprehensive urban influence, and communicated with thestudents from the University of Tokyo on their purpose and feeling of studyingin Shanghai. At the same time, our graduate students also learnt in detail theresearch area (including population migration, urban development, socialexchange mechanism, linguistics, etc.) of the graduate students at theUniversity of Tokyo and the purpose and significance of the University of Tokyo's Integrated Cultural Diversity Project of Humanities Science. After the idea-exchange meeting, our graduate studentsaccompanied the guests to visit the beautiful campus, library, school historyhall, teaching building and other places. All thought that the exchange wasfruitful and deepened the understanding among young students between China and Japan and they all expressed their hope of getting together again in the future.
The exchange of ideas expanded theinternational perspective of our graduate students. Our graduate students saidthat they have benefited greatly from this exchange with the postgraduates fromthe world-class university, which not only enabled the communication amongyoung students of China and Japan, but also enhanced their self-confidence ininternational exchanges. The vision of the alma mater in 2030 is to build ahigh-quality university with international influence. As graduate students of the university with topprogram development, we should learn from the sense of mission and honor of thestudents at the University of Tokyo, take the founding mission of “Right toFishing is Right to Sea” as our responsibility, study hard, forge ahead, andcontribute ourselves to achieving the Chinese Nation’s dreamof becoming a “Sea Power”.