On May 17th, 2019, Panel of the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations was held at Fudan University, Shanghai. Evolving around “Is There An Asian Way of Diplomay?”, the scholars and experts who had concluded the specifically-meaningful convention in Beijing, engaged in profound and robust panel discussions correspondingly. Professor CHEN Zhimin, Vice President of Fudan University presented attendance with delivery of remarks. In the Plenary Welcome Session, Professor Wu Xinbo, Director of the Center for American Studies and Dean of the Institute of International Studies at Fudan University, delivered opening address and moderated Session I.

Shyam Saran, Former Foreign Secretary of India, KOHARA Masahiro, Professor at the School of Law and Politics of Tokyo University, Vladimir PORTYAKOV, Deputy Director,Institute of Far Eastern Studies,Russian Academy of Sciences,and PARK Tae-Gyun , Professor at the Graduate School of International Studies,Seoul National University addressed thematic speeches. Following the session, Professor ZHANG Jiadong, Professor GAO Lan,Professor LIN Minwang and Associate Professor MA Bin put forward comments and engaged in profound exchanges with the presenters.Vice Dean QI Huaigao presided over and concluded Session II.  

　　Acknowledged as one of the leading comprehensive research universities in Asia, Fudan University has consistently attached great importance to and actively promoted exchanges of education, science & technology and humanities with universities in various Asian countries. At present, Fudan University has signed 95 inter-university exchange agreements with universities in Asia. Currently, there are a total of 1877 overseas students from various Asian countries, accounting for the first place henceforth.  

Over the decades, Fudan has established a series of centers focusing on Asia, with a wide range of specialties which encompass American studies, Japanese studies, Korean Peninsula studies, Regional studies of Russia and Central Asia/Shanghai Cooperation Organization studies, South Asian/Pakistan studies, China-EU relations, French studies, China’s neighboring countries studies, UN and International Organizations studies, Chinese diplomacy studies, Asia-Pacific cooperation and governance studies, Latin American studies, Shanghai University think tank, Astana China Central Asian Research Center and so forth. National and regional think tanks and research institutions. Fudan initiated the Lancang-Mekong River Basin Governance and Development Youth Innovative Design Competition and Lancang-Mekong River Youth Innovative Entrepreneurship Training Camp, which develops the high-caliber platform for innovative entrepreneurship incubation and youth exchanges. Fudan led the formation of Network of ASEAN-China Academic Institutes, a platform of academic exchanges and cooperation co-established by Fudan University and nine influential academic institutes in ASEAN member states. Furthermore, as of 2005, co-hosted by Fudan University and Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies, the Forum is a non-governmental and non-profit academic organization, which holds an annual symposium each May in Shanghai, which has cast spotlight on the theme of Economic Globalization and the Choice of Asia. Over the past consecutive 14 years, the organizers of Shanghai Forum endeavor to build an interactive platform for extensive and multi-sided communication amongst academic, political, commercial, and press circles through which significant issues both in Asia and the world will be discussed comprehensively and profoundly to get further resolved.

(Preceding English Paragraphs by Mao Xiaojun)