On June 27, Dr. Malcolm Butler, Vice President of Saint Mary's University (SMU) and Dr. Harjeet Bhabra, Dean of Sobey School of Business of SMU visited XMU and attended the annual council of the Confucius Institute of SMU.

Vice-president Yang Bin attended the meeting and delivered a speech, in which Yang reviewed the achievements of the cooperation between the two universities in the Confucius Institute and pointed out that both sides should further give full play to the role of Confucius Institute as a bridge, and promote the talent exchange and discipline cooperation between SMU and XMU.