MINSK, 5 November (BelTA) – A Belarusian-Chinese media center has been opened in the Belarusian State University (BSU), the university's press service told BelTA.
BSU Prorector for Academic Work and Education Internationalization Konstantin Kozadayev, Dean of the Journalism Faculty Olga Samusevich, Wang Yaotian (the founder of the education center Yaotian, China), BSU employees and students took part in the opening ceremony on 5 November.
Konstantin Kozadayev congratulated the Journalism Faculty on the opening of the media center and described the event as a confirmation of Belarus-China reliable partnership. Konstantin Kozadayev thanked Wang Yaotian for assistance with implementing the project. The prorector said he hopes the media center will contribute to further fruitful cooperation.
The media center will help BSU students acquire practical journalism skills and popularize the Belarusian university among prospective Chinese students. Taking into account the need to train personnel for various kinds of mass media, the media center is divided into several departments: network television, social networks, and a technological department. The media center will host seminars, practical classes involving video and photo editing, production of PR texts and journalistic texts. The center boasts modern equipment, computers for video editing and composition of various media before publishing, an interactive panel, a projector, a television set, and other kinds of equipment. The media center will also be used to implement educational projects involving leading scientists and practitioners of Belarus and China.
The opening of the media center became possible thanks to the education center Yaotian and its founder Wang Yaotian, who has been working with the Belarusian State University since 2012. Wang Yaotian has helped open an information and education center of the Belarusian State University in Beijing, a preuniversity education center of the Belarusian State University in Sanya, an information center for foreign students as part of the university's International Relations Faculty. An agreement on providing grants to Chinese students in recognition of their academic excellence and scientific accomplishments was also signed thanks to Wang Yaotian.
At present 2,177 citizens of China are students at the Belarusian State University.
