On August 29th, a delegation from the Guangzhou Municipality (Canton, China), headed by its Director General, visited Universidade de Lisboa.

ULisboa’s Vice-Rector, Professor Luís Ferreira, welcomed the Chinese delegation and presented the University. The Director of the Confucius Institute, Professor Wang Juncheng, and Professor Nélia Alexandre from the Institute for Portuguese Language and Culture of the School of Arts and Humanities, also took part in the meeting, on behalf of ULisboa.

This visit aimed at establishing cooperation between the Guangzhou Municipality and Universidade de Lisboa as a way of strengthening the ties between the two countries and their Higher Education Institutions.