| With the in-depth development of the opening-up policy of China, the international educational and cultural exchanges are becoming increasingly frequent and active in China. In the last decade, our nation took a much more active part and got involved in the international affairs, as a result China successfully won the bid for 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and the bid for the 2010 Shanghai International Expo, and etc. All such big events provide very good opportunities for China to further promote the international educational and cultural exchanges. As a first-class top university of China, Shanghai Jiao Tong University is incumbent on standing on the front line, and guiding the cooperation and exchange in the fields of education and culture. As the front point of continuing education and life-long education in China, School of Continuing Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, is also incumbent on aiming at developing the international exchange in the field of culture while undertaking the cooperation of education in terms of degree courses, so as to enable more and more foreign countries and foreign people to get to know China especially the situation of China such as history, geography, traditional culture, folk-customs, and traditional architecture, and so on.. |