编者按：5月29日，《中国日报》以半版篇幅聚焦西安交大丝绸之路经济带沿线国家教育合作交流会系列活动，以“新丝绸之路大学联盟搭建丝路沿线高等教育平台（Alliance unites higher education along Silk Road route）”为题推出深度报道，现全文刊登如下： 
Alliance unites higher education along Silk
Road route
A higher education alliance was founded at the opening ceremony of a conference
about education along the New Silk Road held in Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi
province.
About 200 participants, including delegates from both the Pakistani and British
Embassies in China, as well as universities from 19 countries and regions,
witnessed the foundation of the University Alliance of the New Silk Road.
Participants
witness the foundation of the University Alliance of the New Silk Road at an
educational expo in Xi'an, Shaanxi province.
Shaanxi, the starting point of the ancient Silk Road and an important hub in
the Chinese section of the new Eurasian land bridge, has geographical
advantages and rich educational resources to carry out education cooperation
with countries along the route of the Silk Road Economic Belt, said Zhang
Maizeng, Party chief of Xi'an Jiaotong University.
The province has 116 colleges and universities, educating about 1.5 million
students.
These institutions have established relationships with counterparts in 50
countries and regions, and helped to set up 10 Confucius Institutes overseas.
Shaanxi is also home to more than 1,000 research institutes and 65
academicians.
Today's economic globalization and wider application of information and
Internet technologies enable knowledge production and dissemination to break
the limits of space and time, Zhang said.
Frequent flow of capital, technologies and human resources also requires the
cross-department, cross-area and cross-border sharing of higher education
resources, he added.
The alliance also issued a Xi'an Declaration the same day, stating it aims
"to contribute to the common development of civilization and open
collaboration in higher education", based on "the spirit of the Silk
Road - peace and cooperation, openness and inclusiveness, mutual learning and
mutual benefit". Establishment of the alliance was first proposed by Wang
Shuguo, president of Xi'an Jiaotong University, at a related international forum
in January. The initiative then gained support from nearly 100 universities
from 22 countries and regions along the route, which have become members of the
alliance.
They include The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Moscow Power Engineering
Institute, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, University of Liverpool,
National University of Singapore and Tampere University of Technology.
"Many are world-class universities and hope to have more communications
with China in terms of cultural, science and human resources," Wang said.
Exchanges and collaborations among those universities will focus on joint
research and development, cultural communication, policy study, personnel
training, healthcare and medical services, he said.
Xi'an Jiaotong University has already signed cooperation agreements with many
member universities to jointly host academic activities, increase their number
of exchange students, share educational resources and establish joint labs. The
university and Italy's Polytechnic University of Milan, for example, will
jointly establish a school of design and an innovation center in China.
The alliance will be located in the West China Science and Technology
Innovation Zone in Shaanxi's Xixian New Area.
Students
from countries along the Silk Road perform a traditional dance at Xi'an
Jiaotong University. Photos Provided to China Daily
The zone will be home to 23 research institutes and integrate 20,000 to 30,000
professionals across the world, Wang said. Last year, 60 experts and scholars
were recruited for institutions within the zone.
附原文链接：http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2015-05/29/content_20851031.htm
（转自交大新闻网）
作者：中国日报记者 卢宏艳
