The National Bank of Hungary cooperates with Chinese university

The National Bank of Hungary (NBH) has signed a five-year cooperation agreement with the PBC School of Finance of Beijing’s Tsinghua University, one of the top institutions of higher education in the world, the central bank said on Friday.

The agreement, which renews an earlier one from 2017, was signed during the NBH’s Eurasia Forum.

Budapest Metropolitan University and Neumann János University of Kecskemét, partner universities of the NBH, also joined the cooperation. Working together, the sides aim to contribute to establishing a competitive education system, while paving the way for further chances to cooperate.

Professor Jiao Jie, the dean of Tsinghua University PBC School of Finance, was invited by NBH governor György Matolcsy to address the Eurasia Forum.

Hungarians have to prove themselves in international competition, says Orbán

Hungarians have to “prove their excellence” not just in their own micro-communities, but also in international competition, Balázs Orbán, the prime minister’s political director and chairman of the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC)’s board of trustees, said at the opening of the MCC’s new centre in Subotica (Szabadka), in the north of Serbia, on Friday.

Hungarians believe that in addition to its “beautiful thousand-year history and beautiful present, Hungary also has a glorious future before it”, Orbán said, adding that it was important that students, teachers and researchers also contribute to the Hungarian community’s prosperity.

He said that one of MCC’s goals was to aid the political and interest representation groups in northern Serbia’s ethnic Hungarian community by training the next generations of intellectuals.

The MCC is now represented in 31 locations across Hungary and the Carpathian Basin and works with some 8,000 students, he said.

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