Visit to Peking University

During his working visit to China, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko visited Peking University on 30 June.

During a meeting with the leadership of Peking University, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko proposed deepening educational cooperation between Minsk and Beijing.

"Even when I was here ten years ago, I understood that something meaningful should come out of our educational cooperation with your university. Over these ten years, we have developed a joint program for training our young people at this university," Aleksandr Lukashenko stressed. "But I would like you to understand how I see it: these are only the first steps. Our program needs improvement; we must go deeper so that the experience and knowledge of the young people who will study here spread widely across Belarus."

"Receiving an education at one of the world's leading universities is only the first step. All of this is for the sake of creating production that will be based on the education our young people obtain here," the Belarusian leader emphasized.

The discussion of a practice-oriented approach to education arose in the context of the joint educational program in biotechnology between leading universities of the two countries. In this context, Aleksandr Lukashenko noted that students trained under this program should go on to establish concrete enterprises and produce the relevant goods in Belarus based on Chinese technologies.

"First and foremost, in pharmacology. Your experience and technologies for producing medicines and vaccines are extremely important for us, especially in the biotechnological area in which we have begun cooperation," the President emphasized.

Thus, the young specialists who received the relevant knowledge within the joint educational program will be employed in Belarus. At the same time, Chinese and Russian companies were also interested in inviting them to work.

"But I have a strict requirement: after receiving an education at your university, the young people must work in Belarus in close cooperation with Chinese companies and produce specific medicines in Belarus, in this case, for the treatment of cancer," Aleksandr Lukashenko noted.

According to the head of state, this idea was supported by Chinese President Xi Jinping, who approved the joint educational program. "My friend Xi Jinping and I talked a lot about the future. And the future is high technology. Therefore, I want to congratulate you [the leadership of Peking University] that you will always remain within the field of attention of the President of the People's Republic of China. But being in his field of attention means being under serious oversight from the leader of the PRC. Try to turn this into an advantage, first and foremost for Peking University," Aleksandr Lukashenko concluded.

At the meeting, the parties discussed the joint Belarus-China educational program in biotechnology between leading universities of the two countries. In this context, Aleksandr Lukashenko noted that students trained under this program should go on to establish concrete enterprises and produce the relevant goods in Belarus based on Chinese technologies.

"First and foremost, in pharmacology. Your experience and technologies for producing medicines and vaccines are extremely important for us, especially in the biotechnological area in which we have begun cooperation," the President emphasized.

He noted that the young specialists who received the necessary knowledge within the joint educational program will be employed in Belarus. At the same time, Chinese and Russian companies were also interested in inviting them to work.

"But I have a strict requirement: after receiving an education at your university, the young people must work in Belarus in close cooperation with Chinese companies and produce specific medicines in Belarus, in this case, for the treatment of cancer. The President of China agreed with this idea," Aleksandr Lukashenko noted.