A launch ceremony for the Yuncheng University Pilot Project of the Shanxi-Utah Online Education Cooperation Platform is held on March 1. [Photo/shanxi.gov.cn]

A launch ceremony for the Yuncheng University Pilot Project of the Shanxi-Utah Online Education Cooperation Platform was held online on March 1. 

At the ceremony, the heads of Yuncheng University in North China's Shanxi province and the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah in the United States expressed their expectations for the development of the pilot project.

Ma Xiaomin, deputy director of Foreign Affairs Office of the Shanxi Provincial Government, said that in recent years Shanxi has maintained close communications with Utah and the two sides have successfully held a series of exchange activities. The pilot project launch marked new progress in cooperation between the two sides.

Governor Lan Fo'an said that Shanxi has been attaching great importance to friendly exchanges with Utah and will continue to support further cooperation in education, science and technology, and medical care with Utah so as to strengthen relations between the two sides.