The First Overseas Students Cultural Festival in NPU

On May 6th, the First NPU Overseas Students Cultural Festival was held on Youyi campus. The overseas students from eight countries, such as Korea, Cameroon, Cambodia, Yemen, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sudan and Uganda, showed their local flavor and unique cultures through pictures, videos, traditional clothes and dances, food and handicrafts. All the student audience took pictures to capture that happy moment, enjoying the delicious foods and fantastic shows. They said this festival was quite impressive. It was a good experience to know about the cultures and the traditions of various countries, while tasting the delicious foods. In recent years, as the internationalization of NPU progressed, more and more oversea students have come to study in NPU. By 2013, over 780 oversea students from more than 70 countries studied in our university, ranking at the top among Shaanxi universities. Sun Wubin, the Associate Dean of the School of International Education, addressed “The first International Students Cultural Festival” is a window for disseminating the international culture of NPU and its diversity of oversea student education and internationalization. The festival is beneficial to enhance the cultural exchange of students around the world, and develop better communication between domestic students and international students. It is also a good platform for cultural exchanges at home and abroad.