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On October 15 and 16, the 6th Japan-China University Presidents Forum was held in Tianjin City, with participants from Hokkaido University including President Saeki, Executive Office on International Affairs Executive Advisor, Ken Suzuki and Beijing Office Director, Toshitaka Nozawa. The conference has been held every other year since 2000 as a forum for presidents of leading universities in both countries to discuss issues involving higher education and the promotion of cooperation in the 21st century. On the afternoon of the first day, HU held separate meetings with four universities, most of which have inter-university exchange agreements with HU, to discuss the promotion of future exchanges. The opportunity for interaction was also used to conclude an Academic Exchange Agreement and a Memorandum of Understanding on Student Exchanges with China's Sichuan University, which was founded in 1896 and has undergraduate schools in literature, science and engineering, economics, medicine as well as other disciplines, and has approximately 70,000 students and roughly 10,000 faculty and administrative staff. Representatives of 17 Japanese universities, 4 Japanese institutions, 18 Chinese universities and 2 Chinese institutions held discussions at the plenary session on October 16 on the general theme, Internationalization of Creative Human Resource Development and Missions of High-level Universities in China and Japan. President Saeki served as chairperson of a free discussion that marked the end of the event. The next event in the series, the 7th Japan-China University Presidents Forum, will be held in Kyoto in 2011 under the joint auspices of Kyoto University and Ritsumeikan University.
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