Published on: 2026-06-27
Source: People’s Republic of China in Russian –
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Moscow, June 27 /Xinhua/ — The photo exhibition “China-Russia Cooperation in Education: Past and Present” opened on Friday at the Embassy of the PRC in Moscow. More than 60 photographs depicted key stages of bilateral educational cooperation — from joint classes of Chinese and Soviet students in laboratories in the 1950s to youth exchanges and the establishment of joint universities today. A tour of the exhibition was organized for the guests.
Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation Konstantin Mogilevskiy noted that cooperation between the two countries has come a long way — from the first Soviet specialists arriving in China even before World War II, to the present day, when it “mutually enriches our countries and peoples, and is the most important element of relations between Russia and China.” Among the nearest priorities, he named the opening of new joint universities and the increase in the number of academic exchanges.”The most important thing is not to forget that all our educational cooperation is carried out in the interest of our countries, our peoples, and, first and foremost, our young people, who have the future,” emphasized the deputy minister.
Exhibition visitors shared their impressions, complementing what they saw with personal experience. The head of the School of Oriental Studies at the National Research University “Higher School of Economics” (HSE), Alexey Efimov, first arrived in China back in 1991 through an exchange program with Peking University. “I remember how warmly we were welcomed, how interesting it was to study. And even now, when looking at photographs from that earlier period, I recall those first student impressions of China,” he shared. According to A. Efimov, it is precisely such trips that lay “a solid foundation, a basis for further mutual understanding.”
Head of the Department of Chinese Philology of the Institute of Asian and African Countries /ISAA/ of Moscow State University /MSU/ named after M. V. Lomonosov, Konstantin Baraboshkin, in turn, is convinced that the intersection years of education can give “a huge impetus to exchanges not only at the university level but also at the school level.” “Behind all the projects we discuss stand people and human connections — this is the most important thing,” he believes.
Invited lecturer of the Higher School of Economics Alexander Lopatin was especially touched by the photos from the 1950s. “I really liked the old photographs, especially those where Soviet and Chinese specialists are studying something together. This is a very atmospheric photo. It shows how long the relations between Russia and China last, including in the field of education,” he said. The lecturer expressed hope that cooperation will expand and “more and more specialists and students will come from Russia to China and from China to Russia, since both sides have something to learn from each other.”
The youth who came to the exhibition did not hide their interest in China and the prospects that educational cooperation opens up. “Impressive how everything was prepared. These stands and photographs can be examined for a long time, very interesting,” shared the first impressions of Anna Zharelina, a student of the All-Russian Academy of Foreign Trade studying Chinese in her third year. According to her, Russian youth are attracted to China primarily by technology and the country’s readiness for changes. “The most modern can be found precisely in China – this is, it seems to me, what attracts,” she said.
A student of the State Budgetary Educational Institution /SBEI/ “School No. 2200,” Dmitry Suvorov, said that during his trip to the city of Nanking /Jiangsu Province, Eastern China/ he got acquainted with Russian-speaking Chinese and still maintains contact with them. “We really liked it — and now sometimes we can even write to each other,” he shared. His classmates Victoria Veselova and Ksenia Voronina admitted that the exhibition opened up many new things for them. “It was very interesting for us to learn about the relations between Russia and China over so many years,” said V. Veselova. K.Voronina is convinced that interest in China among Russian teenagers will only grow.
The photo exhibition was prepared by the information agency Xinhua and the Embassy of China in the Russian Federation. On May 20, 2026, in Beijing, the opening ceremony of the Cross Year of China-Russia Education took place. This is the tenth consecutive intergovernmental thematic year in the relations between the two countries. –0–
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