On 11 December, Ren Youqun, Member of the Party Leadership Group and Vice Minister of the Ministry of Education, led a delegation on a research visit to the university. Accompanying the delegation were Yu Yunfeng, Director of the Centre for Language Exchange and Cooperation, Zhang Jin, Deputy Director-General of the Department of International Cooperation and Exchange, and Ye Linlin, Deputy Director of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission. Jiang Chuanhai, Secretary of the University Party Committee, and Xuan Fuzhen, President of the University, participated in the visit.

Mr Ren Youqun expressed full affirmation of the university's achievements in advancing educational openness. He emphasised that opening up education is a crucial pathway to accelerating educational modernisation and building China into an education powerhouse. He urged the university to prioritise internationalisation as a key focus, leverage its disciplinary strengths, expand high-quality cooperative resources, intensify efforts in promoting international Chinese language education, and establish more exemplary new heights in Sino-foreign cooperative education.

Jiang Chuanhai outlined the university's recent progress and landmark achievements in addressing major national strategic needs, including cultivating top-tier innovative talent, advancing breakthroughs in core technologies and enhancing original innovation capabilities, and building high-calibre faculty teams.

Xuan Fuzhen detailed the university's efforts to establish an internationalised education system aligned with the Belt and Road Initiative, deepen reforms in cultivating outstanding engineering talent against the backdrop of global industrial development and energy transition, and shared experiences and outcomes in international education.

During the inspection, Ren Youqun and his delegation conducted an on-site visit to the International Elite Engineering Excellence, where they received a work report titled ‘Integrating Chinese and French Education to Cultivate Elite Talent: Forging Excellence Through Integrated Undergraduate-Postgraduate Programmes’. Subsequently, they observed classes and engaged in cordial exchanges with Chinese and international faculty and students, offering high praise for the school's educational achievements.

The inspection was attended by officials from the General Office of the Ministry of Education, the Department of International Cooperation and Exchange, relevant departments of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, and responsible personnel from the university's relevant departments.