On August 27, a delegation from LMU, led by Stefan Lauterbach, Director of International Office, paid a visit to Graduate School. Present at the meeting were Jiang Quanyuan, Director  Academic Affairs of Graduate School, Dr. Dongmei Zhang, LMU Coordinator of Applications LMU–CSC Programm, Zhang Xinyue and Hu Fei from International Office of Graduate School.

Prof. Jiang Quanyuan extended his cordial welcome to the LMU delegation and introduced the current mission and future development of Graduate Education of ZJU and expressed his hope that the two universities will deepen exchanges and promote strategic cooperation in various fields.

''We are pleased to have success working with ZJU through the LMU-China Academic Network (LMU-ChAN),'' said Dr. Stefan Lauterbach. ''We appreciated the collaboration with Zhejiang University.'' He also gave a brief introduction of LMU in terms of its geographical location, faculty, student, advantageous majors, training mode and international cooperation. He expressed his desire to promote partnership with ZJU in scientific research, faculty and student mobility. Dr. Dongmei Zhang, introduced the LMU–CSC Programm, application and admission data of applicants from ZJU in recent years.

The two parties appreciate these years of fruitful cooperation between Zhejiang University and LMU, and agreed to promote cooperation in talent cultivation and to develop more joint training programs for postgraduates from the two universities.

As one of Europe’s leading research universities, LMU looks back on 500 years of tradition and forward to the challenges and responsibilities ahead. Its excellence in teaching and research embraces a wide diversity of fields—from the humanities and cultural studies through law, economics and social sciences to medicine and natural sciences. In the World University Ranking 2018, LMU occupies the top spot among German universities, sharing the 34th slot with the University of British Columbia in Canada worldwide.