On April 28, the Seventh Joint Management Committee (JMC) Meeting of the International Elite Engineering School was held at the Lecture Hall of Yifu Building, East China University of Science and Technology (ECUST). ECUST President XUAN Fuzhen, Vice President ZHU Weihong, Fédération Gay-Lussac (FGL) President Jean-Michel Reneaume, and Rennes National School of Higher Chemistry Director Audrey SORIC, along with other JMC members, attended the meeting. The meeting was chaired by JMC Vice-Chair and ECUST Vice President ZHU Weihong.
President XUAN Fuzhen delivered the opening address. He reviewed the fruitful achievements in Sino-French educational cooperation over the past year, highlighting milestones such as the Second Sino-French Education Development Forum successfully held in Chengdu in December 2025 and the visit of Vice Minister of Education REN Youqun to the School, which received high recognition. He noted that the School's first cohort of graduates has already distinguished themselves in renowned enterprises both at home and abroad, fully attesting to the vitality and effectiveness of the Sino-French cooperative education model. With the School currently advancing the strategic task of CTI accreditation, he emphasized that this represents a vital opportunity to enhance educational quality and deepen Sino-French educational cooperation. Looking ahead, he expressed his expectation that committee members would continue to provide guidance and support in areas such as industry-education integration, internship base development, and engineering practice competency cultivation, jointly nurturing outstanding engineering talents with global competitiveness.
Director of ENSCR Rennes Audrey SORIC and FGL President Jean-Michel Reneaume delivered remarks successively, congratulating the School on its accomplishments and expressing firm support and best wishes for the upcoming CTI on-site audit.
Chinese Dean XING Mingyang presented a comprehensive report to the Committee covering the School's operational status, curriculum system development, faculty team building, practice platform construction, and student affairs, elaborating in detail on the current progress and future plans.
The meeting deliberated on recent agenda items, which were approved by consensus after thorough discussion among all members.
During the open discussion session, committee members engaged in in-depth exchanges on student recruitment and educational quality enhancement, and reaffirmed the importance of two-way international exchange, stressing that while encouraging Chinese students to "go global," French students are also warmly welcomed to study at the School.
Vice President ZHU Weihong delivered concluding remarks. He noted that this meeting, held on the eve of the CTI on-site audit, carries particular significance. The School will take this meeting as an opportunity to earnestly incorporate the valuable insights of all committee members, continuously advance educational and pedagogical reforms, deepen the integration of Sino-French educational philosophies, and strive to build the School into a model highland for Sino-French engineering education cooperation.
