To improve the comprehensive ability of developing countries in the fields of big data, IKCEST-ISTIC jointly held the 42nd session of Silk Road Special Training Program for engineering and technological development in Xi’an Jiaotong Unviersity from Sept. 12th to 18th. Professor Di Dehai, dean of School of Continuing Education of Xi’an Jiaotong University, vice dean Chen Ling and vice dean Zhang Pingchuan, Liu Chang, vice director of Knowledge Center and Program Administration Department of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Mohd Azim Noor, program manager of International Technological Center for South-South Cooperation of UNESCO attended the opening ceremony. Educational officials and students from Malaysia, Laos, Mauritius, Nigeria, Cambodia, Iran, and other countries attended the training program.
In his welcoming speech on the opening ceremony, professor Di Dehai first gave a brief introduction to the history and development of both Xi’an Jiaotong University and University Alliance of Silk Road, and achievements of the IKCEST Silk Road Training Base. He then hoped that the attendees of this training program can have further understanding of the progress of big data, AI, and internet of things, which will have improve their ability to make better use of big data and become leading technological talents in their own fields.
In her speech, Liu Chang pointed out that there are 5 major goals for IKCEST: to establish an international resource database for engineering and technology; to establish a service center for technology and big data; to establish a service system of professional knowledge by cooperating with different universities like Xi’an Jiaotong University; to train more quality talents of engineering; to help better accomplish the goals and plans of UNESCO. She then hoped that more expert would share their research results and expertise with attendees from developing countries and help promote their development.
In his speech, Mohd Azim Noor reported the development of ISTIC for South-South Cooperation of UNESCO and extended his gratitude for IKCEST Silk Road Training Center and Xi’an Jiaotong University for their effort in preparing and holding this training program.
After the opening ceremony, there came a self-introduction of all the attendees and assignment analysis. By this mutual communication between the attendees, the lecturers got to know better about the attendees and their understanding about big data, AI and internet of things, which helped the teachers to better adjust their approaches in conducting their teaching.
To help the students better know about big data, AI and internet of things, this program prepared 9 courses for them, besides which they were also offered opportunities to visit Shaanxi Historical Museum, Xi an International Logistics Park, and Chinasoft International Corporation, so that they may have better understanding about Chinese culture and economic development.
On the closing ceremony of the program, every attendee gave a brief report about their achievement in this program, and professor Sun Hongbin from the School of Electronic and Information Engineering and associate professor Hui Yongchang from the school of Mathematics and Statistics commented on their performances. Through the seven-day training, attendees from greatly improved their ability in the application of big data, and also have better understanding about China’s Silk Road culture, about Xi’an Jiatong University, and about the industrial development in Xi’an city, which helped further strengthen the friendship between China and Belt-road countries.
