China-Japan trip yields benefits
Council lists achievements of delegation
MAYOR Paul Antonio has hailed a recent 12-day Toowoomba Regional Council delegation to China and Japan as a success.
The delegation, which included business representatives and was led by Cr Antonio recently travelled to Shaoxing, China, to sign a formal friendship city agreement with Yuecheng District, the first such agreement for Yuecheng District.
Other achievements of the Chinese leg of the journey included meeting with the Zhejiang Provincial Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Zhejiang CDC) in Hangzhou, which oversees 100 CDC’s in the province; meeting with the Yuecheng Chamber of Commerce, along with about 20 Yuecheng entrepreneurs; meeting with Shaoxing University executives and meeting with Zhejiang Yuexiu University of Foreign Languages executives.
The University of Southern Queensland signed a memorandum of understanding with ZYUFL during the second Shaoxing International Friendship Cities Conference 2018.
USQ international associate director of operations Phillip Eastment welcomed the recent delegations to China and Japan, commending their potential to support Toowoomba’s education industry.
“With students, alumni and staff across the globe, we recognise the incredible significance of USQ’s international ties,” he said.
“USQ looks forward to creating new, and building on existing, relationships with universities in the regions visited by the Toowoomba delegation.
“Those local universities have a significant number of students who want to study overseas – and USQ can certainly help.”
The delegation also travelled to Japan to celebrate Toowoomba Region’s Japanese sister city Takatsuki’s 75th year as a municipality.