KUALA LUMPUR, April 9 (Bernama) -- Students from the world's most prestigious higher education institutions participated in the first International Elite University Dragon Boat Championship on March 27 at Hangzhou's Jinsha Lake, China.
The competition was organised by Zhejiang University, involved 15 teams -- including Oxford, Harvard, Stanford and Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- together participating in the traditional Chinese rowing races.
“The Dragon Boat Championship are very good for us in terms of visibility,” said director of Office of International Relations, Li Min.
Li Min said in terms of international relations they got to know each other better and communicated through sport.
With 180 partners globally, Zhejiang University sends over 3,000 undergraduate students to study abroad each year and has a contingent of more than 6,000 international students.
Through a range of initiatives, the university aims to ramp up its international credentials further, a statement said.
The university targets this kind of groundbreaking research, plethora of international partnerships and state of the art facilities to attract foreigners to its new international campus.
--BERNAMA
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