The inauguration ceremony of the new campus of Zhejiang Wanli University in Hamburg, Germany, on Sept 28. [Photo/ zj.zjol.com]

Zhejiang Wanli University in Ningbo, Zhejiang province, recently took a leap forward in its overseas school-running operations by launching a campus in Hamburg, the second largest city of Germany. 

This move by the school in pursuing educational internationalization comes after its joint efforts with the University of Nottingham in establishing the University of Nottingham Ningbo China in 2004.

Zhejiang Wanli have cooperated with Germany's Brand Academy-University of Applied Sciences, the first university for brand management in Europe, by introducing teaching and internship resources, including outstanding teachers from the German educational institution. 

Special courses about oriental philosophies and cultures will be offered to European students to promote China and its stories abroad. On the other hand, students from the home campus of the school will also be offered with courses related to economics, management and art. 

Both students at the home campus and the new campus in Hamburg will have the opportunity to study abroad in Germany and China respectively.

The new campus now enrolls 1,000 students, and will receive 26 senior students majoring in logistics from the home campus next month, as well as students majoring in designing and management next March and June.

The school intends to establish internationally-focused learning programs for each major in the future, requiring each student to finish such programs before obtaining a diploma. 

Sun Congbin, consul general of China's Consulate in Hamburg, pointed out the nation's urgent need to nurture cross-cultural talents for international exchanges, and extended a wish for the new campus to further promote Sino-German exchanges. 

Zhejiang Wanli University plans to set up more such campuses overseas, enabling its students to have more chances to study abroad and getting more foreign students to learn about Chinese culture, according to Qian Guoying, vice president of the university.