Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno and Lanzhou Institute of Business and Technology signed a cooperation agreement

On January 16, an online meeting was held between Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno and Lanzhou Institute of Business and Technology. The main topic of the meeting was the discussion of promising areas of cooperation between universities.

The Lanzhou Institute of Business and Technology was represented by President Wang Huadong, Executive Vice President Ma Yiha, Director of the Office of International Cooperation and Exchange Ma Yujie, and deans of secondary colleges.

The meeting was attended by the Rector of the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno Iryna Kiturka, Vice-Rector for Ideological and Educational Affairs Vasiliy Sianko, Head of the Center for Internationalization of Education Alena Belakoz, Head of the International Cooperation Department Volha Minava and Senior Lecturer of the Department of Translation and Intercultural Communication, translator Wang Tao. The meeting was also attended by representatives of the UNESCO Association of Gansu Province: Deputy Secretary General Yang Zhi and an employee of the Association, translator Victoria.

Iryna Kiturka, Rector of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, addressed her Chinese colleagues with a welcoming speech. In her speech, she noted the willingness of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno to actively cooperate on previously reached agreements. Among them are the training of graduates of the Lanzhou Institute of Business and Technology in the graduate program of the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, as well as the possibility of further study of Chinese students in graduate school, the implementation of joint educational programs in technology and business, law, philology and art, the exchange of staff for internships and lectures, and the participation of staff and students in scientific and educational and cultural events of the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno.

After discussing the joint work, the representatives of the universities signed an agreement on international cooperation.

The signing of this agreement has become a solid foundation for further cooperation between universities and the development of international relations.

For reference: Lanzhou Institute of Business and Technology is the only provincial private institute of applied type specializing in financial and economic areas in four provincial districts of Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia and Xinjiang. The educational institution was founded in March 2000 as Longqiao College at Lanzhou Business School; it acquired its current status in 2021. It has 10 faculties, two academic departments and 34 specialties.

Lanzhou Institute of Business and Technology is renowned for the quality of training applied specialists and actively develops interuniversity and regional cooperation. Currently, about 300 students of Lanzhou Institute are studying at partner universities under the program "2+1+1 ".

In the Alumni Association of China ranking, the university has been among the top ten non–governmental educational institutions of the People's Republic of China for five years in a row, and in 2024 and 2025 it ranks eighth, receiving the highest rating of 6 stars as China's top non-governmental applied institute.