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ways to cultivate the students capabilities, and the academic exchanges and cooperation between universities in the two countries.
some participants also held private talks on specific matters in the academic fields.
qu ainyue, president of nanjing university and head of the chinese delegation, told reporters that the seminar is successful since it has made progress in further strengthening the contacts, friendship, and cooperation between the universities in china and the united states.
he said higher education in each of the two countries has its own features and its own experience, but both are facing many problems. the exchange of views will help them learn from each other and inspire them to blaze a new trail to invigorate the university education, he added.
the chinese delegation met with charles mathias, vice chairman of the foreign relations committee of the u.s. senate on tuesday, before leaving baltimore thursday for a visit to the state of michigan.
the first chinese and american university presidents seminar was held in beijing, china in july, 1985.
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july 18 (Xinhua) --china has bought a simulator from the united states to train nuclear power plant operators according to the national nuclear safety administration of china. the administration's chief engineer lin chengge told xinhua today that the simulator for a 900,000 kilowatt nuclear plant has been shipped to beijing's ainghua university.
a simulator duplicates the control panels used by reactor operators which is tied into a computer that simulates the actions of a power plant.
qinghua university is now renovating a building to house the simulator. trial training of chinese nuclear plant operators is expected to start in the latter half of 1987, according to cher.
the chief engineer said the simulator allows reactor operators to practise running a nuclear plant under the normal or accidental conditions, and helps them do accurate operations and handle accidents of different kinds.
the national nuclear safety administration will, chen said. strictly train and examine operators in line with international standards and procedures. successful trainees will be given
licerces.
the administration 1 བ now working out licerce regulations for nuclear plant operaters. quality of operators will be an important guarantee for safety operations.
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