On October 15, Hu Xiaohui, Head of the College of International Education and President of Tashkent Campus NWAFU, led a delegation to the Kazakhstan Branch Campus of Northwestern Polytechnical University to conduct a targeted research visit. The visit focused on governance systems and operational mechanisms, enrollment policies, training programs, and curriculum systems of overseas branch campuses. Relevant officials from the College of International Education accompanied the delegation.
During the symposium, Hu Xiaohui provided a comprehensive review of the practices and phased achievements over the past two years in implementing the outcomes of head-of-state diplomacy and advancing the high-standard development of Tashkent Campus NWAFU. She noted that our branch campus has achieved the crucial leap “from nothing to something,” but its capacity for sustainable self-development still needs to be strengthened. She expressed the hope of learning replicable and scalable experience from pioneering institutions in overseas education—such as Northwestern Polytechnical University—so as to “keep the essential and discard the outdated,” internalizing these insights into an endogenous driving force for our branch’s high-quality development. She emphasized that Northwestern Polytechnical University has been at the forefront of promoting university internationalization through its high-quality overseas campuses, continually expanding its global cooperation network and enriching international education resources, thereby providing strong support for enhancing its global reputation. She expressed the hope that both sides would enhance mutual learning and exchange in the process of advancing higher education outreach in Central Asia, jointly contributing more to the opening-up of education and to serving national diplomatic strategies.
Kong Jie, Head of the International College at Northwestern Polytechnical University and President of its Kazakhstan Branch Campus, welcomed the delegation and gave an overview of the campus’s development background, overall plan, intended outcomes, and quality assurance system. He focused particularly on sharing practices and experiences in admission management, bilingual teaching, funding, and compliance governance. The two sides engaged in in-depth discussions on topics including student recruitment and brand communication, joint training and cross-campus course selection, faculty exchange and industry–education integration, as well as quality assessment and risk prevention.