Vil Bakirov, president of the Kharkiv National University in eastern Ukraine, said that the roundtable forum in Kiev is an important platform to establish new links between cooperating institutions and create new higher education programs between China and Ukraine.
"First of all, I want to stress the great importance of this forum in terms of scope and tasks. We have not yet fully utilized the enormous opportunities that Ukraine and China have. I am deeply convinced that this forum will allow us to make cooperation broader and deeper," Bakirov said.
The forum, which was opened by visiting Chinese Minister of Education Chen Baosheng, his Ukrainian counterpart Liliya Grynevych, and Chinese Ambassador to Ukraine Du Wei, marked the second meeting of Chinese and Ukrainian university chiefs. The first forum was held in 2012.
