On May 20^th, the associate dean Cai Hongbo visited and expressed solicitude to the international students who stay on BNU campus in this epidemic period. The program director of the Chinese Program Mrs. Li hui, the program director of the English Program Profl Zheng Feihu, and Ms. Xie Jia from the International Exchange and Cooperation Office accompanied.

The group of 4 went to four apartments on campus, and visited two Vietnamese international students of the Chinese Program, Thi Hang Nguyen and Thi Van Anh Nguyen, a Russian international student of the English Program Sizov Kirill, three Bangladeshi international students of English Program, Mia MD Sumon, Raaz Ali and Akter Shahnaj, and a Ghanaian of international students of English Program Gadah Sebastian Besa.

Cai talked with each international student and asked them about their life and study, as well as the difficulties that need to be solved with the help of BNUBS. Cai and his delegation also answered questions from students about online courses, arrangement of thesis defense, scholarship selection and visa extension. All the students promised they would abide by the school's regulations and they hoped that the epidemic would end soon and the school would get back on track. Cai and his fellows thanked the students for their understanding and support of the close management adopted during the epidemic. They encouraged the students to arrange their schedules reasonably, study well during this period, exercise diligently, maintain an optimistic and positive attitude, and work together to overcome the difficulties.

(By Xie Jia, Office of International Exchange and Cooperation)