On 24 April 2026, Jia Wenjian, President and Deputy Secretary of the CPC Committee of Beijing Foreign Studies University (“BFSU”), led a delegation to the Taipa campus of Macau Millennium College (“MMC” or the “College”) for a meeting and exchange. The two sides signed a Memorandum of Understanding. The meeting was chaired by Professor Zhong Weihe, Rector of MMC.

Professor Zhong introduced MMC’s educational positioning, development history, curriculum development, research planning and its “Digital Intelligence +” strategy. He said that, rooted in Macao, oriented towards the Greater Bay Area and connected to the world, the College is actively drawing on Macao’s unique strengths as a meeting point of Chinese and Western cultures, a platform for international exchange and cooperation, and a testing ground for innovation in higher education. In line with Macao’s development positioning as “One Platform, One Base and One Centre”, the College is committed to nurturing outstanding, innovative and internationally minded digital-intelligent talent with cross-cultural competence and the capabilities needed for the digital-intelligent era.

Professor Jia introduced BFSU’s educational features, disciplinary strengths and international development. He noted that BFSU, as an important centre in China for foreign language education, international communication, and regional and country studies, has long served the country’s opening-up and people-to-people exchanges between China and the rest of the world. MMC has a distinctive location advantage and strong development momentum, and the two institutions have broad scope for cooperation in Portuguese-language talent development, cross-cultural exchange, international education, regional and country studies, and AI-enabled education.

Under the Memorandum of Understanding, the two institutions will promote cooperation in a range of areas, including exchanges of teaching staff and technical personnel, the development of innovative academic programmes, cultural exchange activities, research and consultancy, the joint organisation of academic conferences, staff’s professional development, and student exchange programmes.

The signing of the Memorandum of Understanding marks a new stage in the partnership between MMC and BFSU. Looking ahead, the two institutions will build on their respective strengths in language education, international exchange, cross-cultural research, digital-intelligent education and regional platforms, actively explore new models of university cooperation between Beijing and Macao, and jointly support China’s opening-up in education, the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and Macao’s appropriately diversified economic development.

Also attending the meeting and signing ceremony were He Jing, Director of the Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan Affairs Office of BFSU; Tang Zheyuan, Director of the Comprehensive Reform Office and the “Double First-Class” Development Office of BFSU; Wan Fang, Vice Dean of the Law School of BFSU; Zhang Fangfang, Vice Dean of the Department of Hispanic and Portuguese of BFSU; Professor Wang Lifei, Vice Rector of MMC; Huang Hua, Assistant Rector of MMC; Wei Qiu, Director of the Rector’s Office of MMC; and Yang Yanchao, Director of the Department of Digital-Intelligent Language Services.