On May 16th, 2025, invited by the Scholarships Office of the UAE Presidential Court (SCO), Li Chunzhong, ECUST Vice President, and Li Xiaopeng, Dean of the International Education School, and other representatives attended the signing ceremony for the Memorandum of Cooperation (MoU) between the SCO and China’s first group of high-level universities in Beijing.

Following the signing ceremony, ECUST representatives also held talks with Ms. Iman Al-Amir, Head of Media Affairs and Public Diplomacy at the UAE Embassy in China. They discussed ECUST's upcoming Shanghai International Summer School program “Arab Youth: Wisdom, Action, China - Global Competence Summer Program” and student exchanges with UAE University (UAEU). Ms. Al-Amir expressed commitment to actively promote student exchanges and research cooperation between ECUST and renowned UAE universities, adding momentum to China-UAE educational collaboration.