On August 12 and 17, 2021, representatives of the alumni of Shandong University of Science and Technology in Vietnam and Indonesia held the inauguration ceremony of the alumni association and the passing of the university flag in Taiyuan, Vietnam and Malang, East Java, Indonesia, respectively, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of their alma mater.

The happy news of the 70th anniversary of Shandong University of Science and Technologyspreadthe overseas. Although the alumni could not visit their alma mater in person or gather freely in their respective country cities due to the aggravation of the epidemic, their gratitude and blessings to the university were continuously passed among teachers and students. The alumni actively contacted the university and alumni in their countries, elected the president and secretary-generalof the Alumni Association, and successfully completed the establishment of the overseas alumni association of Shandong University of Science and Technology in their respective countries.

At the ceremony of passing theuniversity flag, the president of Vietnam Alumni Association, Nguyen Thi Hong Huynh, and the secretary general of Indonesia Alumni Association, Sindi, led the representatives of alumni to wish their alma mater “happy 70th anniversary” and to make“grand plans and great achievements”.

In 2009, the university cooperated with Taiyuan University of Science and Technology in Vietnam to hold a “2+2” dual-degree joint training program in Chinese for undergraduate majors in international economics and trade. In 2019, the university cooperated with Malang National University of Technology in Indonesia to hold a “2+2” dual-degree program in English for undergraduate majors in electromechanical engineering, communication engineering, and chemical engineering and technology.At present, there are more than 50 alumni of Vietnamese students and more than 170 alumni of Indonesian students in our university.