Shanghai university encouraged by report

Teaching faculty and students at Shanghai International Studies University said General Secretary Xi Jinping's report at the Communist Party of China's 19th National Congress inspired them to become stronger in national and regional studies.

At the opening session of the congress, the country's most important political meeting in five years, Xi said: "We respect the diversity of world civilization. We aim for civilization exchanges rather than civilization barriers, mutual understanding of civilizations rather than conflicts, and coexistence of civilizations rather than superiority."

Jiang Feng, Party secretary of SISU, said, "As a foreign studies university on the way to joining the world's first echelon in national and regional studies as well as global knowledge, we feel very much encouraged by Xi's report to better achieve our mission, and we believe that there will be bright prospects in what we have and will be continuously committed to."