Under the patronage of Prof. Mohamed Diaa Zain ElEl-Abeen, President of Ain Shams University, and Prof. Ghada Farouk, Vice President of the University, Prof. Salwa Rashad, Dean of the Faculty of Al-Alsun, and Prof. Nasser Abdel-Al, Vice Dean of the Faculty and Director of the Confucius Institute, received on Tuesday a delegation representing the International Confucian Association and the University of Foreign Studies in Beijing, headed by Mr. Li Wei, Mr. Shui Yongji, Secretary-General of the Association, Mrs. Li Huang Mai, Professor. Cang Hong, Professor Shui Qingguo and Dr. Yu Mai.

The meeting discussed ways of cooperation between the Association and the University of Foreign Studies in Beijing and between the Faculty of Al-Alsun, the Confucius Institute and the Department of Chinese Language in the Faculty in the field of Chinese studies and translation. It was emphasized to renew the agreement signed between Ain Shams University and the University of Foreign Studies in Beijing during the upcoming visit of the President of the University of Foreign Studies in Beijing to the University Ain Shams next October.

A symposium was held in the field of translation between professors at the University of Foreign Studies in Beijing and professors of the Chinese Language Department at the Faculty of Al-Alsun. The symposium was moderated by Prof. Nasser Abdel-Al, and the symposium was attended by Prof. Mohsen Ferjani, Prof. Magdy Amin, Prof. Hassanein Fahmy, a group of faculty staff, and teaching aassistans.

The symposium recommended holding workshops in the field of translation between the two universities in China and Egypt and increasing the number of scholarships in the field of translation for members of the teaching aassistans and students from the Faculty of Al-Alsun.