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NTHU Established Taiwan Education Center in Amity University
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Vice Chancellor Singh of Amity University and Senior Vice President Feng singed the MOU to inaugurate the TEC.
Vice Chancellor Singh of Amity University and Senior Vice President Feng singed the MOU to inaugurate the TEC.
Group picture at the grand opening
Group picture at the grand opening

After the successful establishment of the first Taiwan Education Center in O.P. Jindal University, State of Haryana, India, and with additional support from Ministry of Education, NTHU inaugurated a second Taiwan Education Center on the campus of Amity University, Noida, on November 11th of 2011.

Led by Senior Vice President Da-Hsuan Feng and Deputy Minister of Education, Dr. Tsong-Ming Lin, eleven NTHU faculty members travelled to India and took part in the founding ceremony. Celebrities participated in the grand opening include the Founding President of Amity University, Dr. Ashok K. Chauhan, Vice Chancellor Dr. Gen. K. Jai Singh, and Pro Vice Chancellor Dr. Gurinder Singh, and more than one hundred leading academicians and administrators of Amity University.

President Lih J. Chen was unable to attend such a historical moment, but he is excited that NTHU is cooperating with Amity University, one of the leading institutions in India. He believes that as India and China has become global economic pillars in the 21st Century, and the academic and economical interaction between them is intensifying, it is only nature that there is an increasing interest in Chinese culture in India. The collaboration of NTHU and Amity University will meet such interests and facilitate cultural interaction and academic development in both countries.

The mission of Taiwan Education Center in Amity University, same as the first one in O.P. Jindal Global University, is to promote Chinese cultural understanding and awareness, from ancient to modern. In particular, Taiwan Education Centers will offer courses and other academic activities aiming at promoting language learning and cultural understanding. Deputy Minister Lin praised NTHU for the great effort in establishing Taiwan Education Centers in India, and he is confident that such efforts will undoubtedly leads to a stronger and deeper mutual understanding between the people in Taiwan and India and would eventually contribute to the development of Asia as a whole.