On May 22, 2025, ZBTI successfully held the 2025 China-Hungary Cultural Inheritance and International Dissemination Exchange Conference. The conference aimed to deepen cultural exchanges between China and Hungary and explore new paths for cultural inheritance and dissemination. Ms. Dávidné Berka Emese, Director of the National Scholarship Department of the Hungarian Ministry of Education, and a delegation of five from the Edutus University visited our school and had an interactive discussion with representatives of the Ningbo Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritance Bases.
In his welcoming speech, Zhang Qifu, ZBTI's president and deputy secretary of the Party committee, stated that as one of the first batch of full-time public vocational colleges in Zhejiang Province, the school adheres to the characteristic of carrying forward the spirit of the Ningbo business community and cultivating modern business talents. The school attaches great importance to international exchanges and has cooperated with educational institutions in nearly 30 countries and regions. He emphasized that culture becomes more splendid through exchanges. He hopes that through the exchanges, Hungarian friends will gain a better understanding of the inheritance and innovation of Ningbo's culture, promote cultural dissemination and the inheritance of civilization, and attract more Hungarian youth to come to Ningbo for exchanges.
Ms. Dávidné Berka Emese also expressed her expectations and support for the event in her speech. She emphasized that as China-Hungary cooperation continues to deepen, cooperation in the field of education, especially vocational education, has become a key point in the Hungarian government's education agenda and will receive continuous and increasing attention. The government will increase policy support, with a focus on credit recognition programs and joint training plans to benefit students from both countries.
At the signing ceremony, ZBTI signed a memorandum of understanding on cultural and educational exchanges with Edutus University of Hungary. Meanwhile, the school also signed a memorandum of understanding on the off-campus Cultural Practice Base for International Students with Yunhu Kiln. The signing of these agreements marks a new stage in the cooperation between China and Hungary in the fields of education and culture.
The successful holding of this exchange meeting not only deepened the understanding and mutual learning between China and Hungary in the fields of cultural inheritance and international dissemination, but also laid a solid foundation for future cooperation, which is of positive significance for promoting cultural exchanges between China and Hungary and facilitating the development of the cultural industry.