On December 6, 2012, a delegation captained by Prof. David Wilson, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of De Montfort University, including Mr. Andrew Rees, Deputy Dean of Faculty of Business and Law, and Mr. Dahai Gao, Senior International Officer, visited BNUZ. Prof. Ailan Fu, Vice-President of BNUZ, Prof. Tongyao Zhang, Assistant to Dean of International Business Faculty, Mr. Zhen Cui of IBF, and Dr. Chunyan Gan, Director of International Office greeted the guests and a meeting was held at the international centre.

The main purpose of the visit of De Montfort University is to review the smooth collaboration between two universities during the past years, and to explore more possible area of cooperation in future. Prof. Fu warmly welcomed the guests and both parties agreed to renew the agreements and to deepen the current collaboration.

BNUZ has signed the program agreement in the year of 2002, and there have been 133 BNUZ students studied at De Montfort so far. Besides 2+2 program in Finance, the international collaboration between both universities has expanded with 3+1 mode, 2+3 mode, teacher exchange and training programs.