May 1^st to 5^th,  2015, a delegation led by Professor Zhou Nuo, Vice President of Guangxi  Medical University Dean of College of Stomatology, Professor  Chen Wenxia, Deputy Dean of College of Stomatology paid a goodwill visit  to College of Dental Medicine, Columbia University School of  Dentistry, Temple University.

On the morning of May 3^rd, the delegation was invited to visit College of Dental Medicine, Columbia University.  Columbia University attached great importance to the visit by rendering  a high-level reception. Present at the meeting were Professor Christian  Stohler, Vice President of Columbia University Dean of College of  Dental Medicine, Professor James Fine, Deputy Dean of College of Dental  Medicine Professor Jeremy Mao, laboratory director. At the meeting,  on behalf of the president of Columbia University, Vice President  Christian Stohler extended a warm welcome to our delegation conveyed  good wishes to conduct cooperation exchanges with Chinese  institutions of higher learning. The two sides then exchanged views on  talent cultivation, exchanges of teachers students, academic  collaborations so on. They also reached consensus to establish  friendly colleges planned to hold a signing ceremony recently with  the purpose of laying a solid foundation for further comprehensive  cooperation. Columbia University is a world-renowned research-oriented  university a member of the Ivy League. Therefore, to establish ties  with it will tremendously increase educational scientific research  strength in our college.

During  the visit, at the invitation of Professor Amid Ismail, Dean of School  of Dentistry, Temple Univeristy, Vice Presient Zhou Nuo attended the  annual opening ceremony of dental internship, promoting exhanges  cooperaton between our two colleges. Since the establishment of friendly  colleges between us in 2011, exhanges cooperation are on the rise  with regular mutual exhanges of teachers students. Dean Ismail added  that a goup of 4 postgraduates was about to conduct a one-week exhange  to College of Stomatology, GXMU in order to further expthe depth  breadth of bilateral exhanges cooperation. This  visit has yielded fruitful result by enhancing friendship deepening  exchanes cooperation with other colleges promoted the  fulfillment of the target of “being internationalized cultivating  elites ” the construction of internationalized College of  Stomatology that gears to ASEAN nations, possesses regional advantages,  intergrates clinic, teaching scientific research.