A New Chapter for Gingko's Internationalization—The Cloud MoU Signing with Chiang Mai University

Due to the impact of the pandemic, the signing ceremony was held within their respective campuses via video conference online platform. Assoc. Prof. Li Ming, the President of Gingko and, Prof. Niwes Nantachit, the President of CMU, as well as the management team of the two universities attended the ceremony.

The ceremony officially commenced with speech delivered by the two Presidents. Prof. Niwes firstly expressed his greetings in Chinese. He introduced that CMU is one of the oldest universities in Thailand with extensive resources in education and research, followed further by an explanation on the mission of CMU and stated a sincere wish of promoting teacher-student exchanges as well as teaching and research collaborations between the two universities in the fields of hospitality, tourism, healthcare, international logistics and e-commerce.

In addition, President Niwes also spoke highly of the time-honored friendship between Thailand and China and showed full confidence in the cooperation of cross- and inter-disciplinary programs between Thai and Chinese universities under the "Belt and Road" initiatives.

Thereafter, President Li Ming commended Chiang Mai University for its outstanding teaching and research achievements that helped bolstering regional development over the past 50 years. He introduced Gingko College, which is renowned as the only independent higher educational institute of its kind in Chinese mainland for its professionalism in hospitality field and the innovative teaching mode to be conducted in its three world-class teaching hotels. President Li Ming expressed the wish for Gingko to collaborate with Chiang Mai University in the fields of smart hotel, digital innovation, fin-tech for the tourism and hotel industry, supply chain management for the tourism and hospitality industry, wellness tourism, cross-border e-commerce etc., so as to jointly foster international talents for management and research roles.

Afterwards, President Li Ming and President Niwes signed an MOU. The whole process was also witnessed and supported by Ms. Woramon Sinsuwan, the Acting Consul General of the Royal Thai Consulate-General in Chengdu.