Recently, President Ma Jian of Chang’an University and President Daniel Weeks of University of Northern British Columbia signed Memorandum of Understanding between the two Universities. 

According to the agreement, to promote educational and academic exchanges, both sides will initiate cooperation and communication in the field of student exchange, cooperation in scientific research, joint seminars, establishment of information resource sharing mechanisms etc, establish and carry out a comprehensive, long-term and stable cooperative partnership on the basis of equality and mutual benefit, complementary advantages, mutual cooperation and common development. In terms of student exchange cooperation, short-term exchange programs will be carried out specifically. The two sides will provide information and technique support for each other, and share resources and information in cooperation fields. The signing of the cooperation agreements will provide better opportunities and platforms for the common development of the two universities.

University of Northern British Columbia, located in Prince George，British Columbia, Canada, is a famous comprehensive public university . It ranked second in the evaluation for Canadian primarily undergraduate universities held by the McLean magazine in 2014, It is also the famous “green university” in Canada ，which is famous for the discipline of environmental research.