On November 25th, Professor Phongnarong, Dean of the Faculty of Music at Mahidol University in Thailand, and his delegation visited Zhejiang Conservatory of Music. President Wang Rui met with them and held discussions, with Vice Dean Dong Dejun also participating. Relevant officials from the Office of International Exchange and Cooperation, the Graduate School, and the Department of Traditional Chinese Music accompanied the visit.

President Wang Rui welcomed the delegation and briefly introduced the achievements Zhejiang Conservatory of Music has made in international exchanges and cooperation. He mentioned that in recent years, the conservatory has signed strategic cooperation agreements with internationally renowned music institutions such as the Liszt Academy of Music in Hungary, the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University in the United States, and the Conservatory of Music in Venice, Italy. The conservatory has frequently hosted international masterclasses, concerts, and other academic exchange activities, realizing multi-level and wide-ranging international exchanges and collaborations. Next year marks the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and Thailand, and Dean Wang expressed hope that this milestone could serve as an opportunity to establish strategic cooperation with Thailand’s top music institutions, achieving faculty sharing and student exchange, and seeking breakthroughs in the field of high-level music talent cultivation to jointly create a distinctive academic hub in the music education landscape.

Dean Phongnarong expressed his gratitude for the warm reception and briefly introduced the Faculty of Music at Mahidol University. He pointed out that the Faculty of Music is actively seeking cooperation resources in the field of Eastern music research and expressed strong agreement with the vision proposed by President Wang Rui. Both Zhejiang Conservatory of Music and Mahidol University’s Faculty of Music are in key periods of rapid development. Dean Phongnarong hopes that both sides will fully leverage their respective professional expertise and talent advantages to achieve resource sharing and win-win cooperation. He also invited Zhejiang Conservatory of Music to visit Thailand next year to attend the Global Higher Education Music Summit, further deepening academic exchanges and cooperation between the two institutions.

After the meeting, the two sides exchanged gifts and posed for a group photo.

Mahidol University’s Faculty of Music is one of Thailand's leading professional music institutions. It conducts extensive and in-depth research in areas such as music education, music theory, music composition, and music performance, achieving a series of significant research results. The faculty has made positive contributions to the inheritance and development of traditional Thai music and the advancement of music education in Thailand.