Thai Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn on Thursday visited the
prestigious Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, capital of East
China's Zhejiang Province, and was appointed an honorary
professor.
Sirindhorn said at the appointment ceremony that she was
delighted with the visit, and she hopes the Zhejiang University can
carry out further cooperation with Thai universities in such areas
as computer science, biomedical engineering, technology,
linguistics and humanities.
She also stressed the role universities played in pushing
forward social development.
Secretary of the Zhejiang University Committee of the Communist
Party of China Zhang Xi presented the certificate, school badge and
souvenirs to Sirindhorn.
Sirindhorn also visited the library and the national laboratory
for clean energy utilization at the university, as well as some
places of interest in Hangzhou, a well-known tourism city of
China.
(Xinhua News Agency April 7, 2006)
