On October 22, the main forum of the 9th Kunming Forum on Education Cooperation in South and Southeast Asia and the 2026 South and Southeast Asia International Conference on Innovation and Development in Engineering Education were held in Kunming. The conference was attended by senior education officials from RCEP member countries, representatives of relevant countries’ diplomatic missions in China, academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, presidents of Chinese and international universities, experts in engineering education, and heads of leading industry enterprises. Wei Shizhen, President of Guangxi Minzu University, attended the event at the invitation and delivered a keynote speech.

Wei Shizhen introduced an overview of engineering education at Guangxi Minzu University and systematically shared the university’s practical experience and achievements in actively exploring high-quality development of engineering education and vigorously advancing it from three aspects: leveraging disciplinary strengths to promote the cultivation of “language plus” internationalized engineering talents; building on engineering education accreditation to establish a regional cooperation mechanism for mutual recognition of engineering qualifications; and focusing on building a study-abroad brand to deepen international scientific and educational collaboration in the engineering field.

Participants delivered keynote presentations and held roundtable discussions on key topics such as industry-education integration in engineering education, international talent cultivation, mutual recognition of educational standards, cross-border joint scientific research, joint cultivation of outstanding engineers, and industry-university-research collaboration mechanisms.

President Wei Shizhen speaks

Scenes of the forum