Marina Petrochenko, Director of the Institute of Civil Engineering of Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU), led a delegation to Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology (XAUAT) on the morning of March 20.
Heads and staff from the XAUAT International Relations Office and School of International Education met with the delegation.
Wang Chunmei, Director of the International Relations Office and Dean of the School of International Education, gave the SPbPU delegation a warm welcome. She briefed them on XAUAT’s development, ranking and international exchange, and reviewed the cooperation between the two universities over recent years.
On behalf of XAUAT, Wang invited SPbPU to attend the 2025 annual meeting of the SRIAATU and presidents’ forum, and expressed her hope that the two sides will take this visit as an opportunity to constantly deepen cooperation in talent training, exchanges between teachers and students as well as joint scientific research in order to harvest tangible benefits.
Marina Petrochenko thanked XAUAT for its hospitality, and briefed the XAUAT participants on the divisions under the Institute of Civil Engineering, rankings, research platforms, journals and publications. She expressed her willingness to actively advance mutual visits of teachers and students and joint scientific research between the two sides under the framework of the SRIAATU so as to deepen bilateral cooperation.
The delegation also visited the XAUAT School of Civil Engineering and School of International Education.
Founded in 1899 with Dmitry Mendeleev, formulator of the periodic table, as one of the founders, SPbPU ranks the first among Russia’s engineering universities. It is on the list of the Project 5-100, a program to bring at least five universities from among the project participants into the 100 best universities in the world according to three most authoritative world rankings by 2020.
It has 25 Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences and 57 members of the Russian Academy of Engineering or Russian Academy of Educational Sciences. Nobel laureates N. N. Semenov, P. L. Kapiza and Zh. I. Alferov studied and worked in the university.