President Yang Szu-wei led the delegation to visit Inner Mongolia, P.R.C. between Aug.16 and Aug.21, and at the meantime signed MOU with Inner Mongolia University for the Nationalities (IMUN). This has become a milestone of academic connection between NTCU and IMUN and between Inner Mongolia and Taiwan.
      IMUN is located at Tong-Liao city known as “the Pearl on the Grassland”, in eastern area of Inner Mongolia. It was set up in 1958, and currently owns 25 teaching units, more than 1,000 teachers, 20,000 full-time students and 318 foreign students. The university is particularly famous of programs of Horchin cultural studies and Mongolian Medicine.
       On first few days, the delegation group visited the Tongliao Museum, Ta-qing-gou natural reserve, Zhe-li-mu horse racing activity and many attractions. This helped them to widely and deeply know the nature and culture of Tongliao area. Then on Aug. 20th, they formally took part in the meeting of signing MOU and welcomed by President Fu, Yong-chun and other academic supervisors of IMUN. President Yang, Prof. Huang and Prof. Wei proposed many ideas with regard to launching research and teaching programs at the university level and the college level. After completing signing, President Fu especially led the group to walk around the newly built Library and University Museum, as the first visiting group.
     The delegation received warm and enthusiastic treatment from IMUN. Although members of NTCU and IMUN came from different background, but the common language contributed to good communication and conversation, and reached the consensus of arranging new exchange programs in the future (translated by Hui-Yi Hung).