During the hot summer break, the 2026 tour study programs (lasting from July and August), co-organized by the Department of Student Affairs and the International Exchange and Cooperation Office, after going through the campus-wide exams and screenings ahead by the disciplinary areas at AXHU, 27 student-faculty reps were heading for the University Malaysia Sabah (UMS) in Malaysia and the Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi (RMUTT), where they engaged with international study.
When landing on the Hefei Xinqiao International Airport, the two-month tour study of “Cultural Immersion Exchange Program” wrapped up back-to-school successfully, while harvesting lots of surprises that are up for AXHU-wide academic exchange later, especially for those current young students stepping up to know more about the world.
The chapter of “Land Below the Wind,” Negeri Sabah, Malaysia
After the UMS delegation’s visit to AXHU, Mar 27, 2026, including the chancellor Prof. Datuk Kasim Hj. Mansor and his managing officials (To know more: https://gjjy.axhu.edu.cn/contents/889/267853.html), meanwhile, at their warm-hearted invitation to UMS community, the AXHU administration set out the summer program as scheduled, which also manifested the pragmatic efforts to make the intercollegiate cooperation internally priorities over propelling the higher education breakthroughs concerted internationally.
From Jul 22 to 28, eight students walked respectfully into the UMS community based in Kota Kinabalu, the capital of Negeri Sabah, which is as the most famous public university in Malaysia, academically popular with its programs supported with more than 1,800 courses, covering marine science, environmental sciences, commercial finance, engineering technology, and more, within the 13 schools, three research centers, and 63 disciplines till now.
On the internationalized campus, the AXHU students immersed themselves into the well-established multiple courses, for example, the University-based language courses, in-class hot exchange settings in oral English desperately inspired by the anchor-like teacher ushering the students to practical priorities by certain mainstream language(s) certainly populous worldwide, however, plus standardized tests on a scale; art research and practice with growing international influences in recent years through the “distinctive pluralistic lens,” such as the musical instrument performance ear-feasting with Gamelan then, there, beating out much of Borneo-style music magic in rhythm sounding a broader wave of melody out of its distinguished virtues rooted in the culture and history; yet, connecting with much more to be spoken proudly, the “broader” hospitality in the eastern Asia community to greet the peace-loving world people of any color in a “multireligious academic environment” all-time, especially performing the homelike routines, resonated in the greatest traditions of Malaysia and China both.
The visiting students and faculty also had had a first experience of the unique humanistic landscapes on-campus, when suddenly caught a sight of and stepped into the rose-colored mosque called “Masjid As-Syakirin UM”—placidly hidden into the light-green groves, which is, as one of the campus culture landmarks, having a modern design of Islam-featured architecture painted in a hue of light rose pink, surrounded contrastively by the rows of modern contemporary Gaussian buildings of teaching and research and harmoniously in tropical vegetation.
With a hike outside the campus, coming closer to embrace the natural environment filled with towering hundreds-old trees on which vigorously scrambling evergreen ivies hang, sunlights piercing through between the heavy lush leaves on the thick twigs interlaced, and below which dark-green mosses sprawling whereabouts afoot in rain forest, and then into the people’s life in Sabah at the foot of the holy Mount Kinabalu, where they met very friendly in the residences known “Longhouse,” where they together experienced from the “drill-wood-to-make-fire” to the culinary art traditionally of the “bamboo-tube-cooked rice” and much more, meeting with the much part of the aborigines retreated living so differently but naturally nurtured generation-to-generation in the jungles of Borneo.
Having another exciting expedition to its interior parts to find more, while boating down the rives winding through the mangrove forest, where you can frequently cross paths with the Borneo-special species, such as crowds of proboscis monkeys, and when sunsetting comes, halfway, swarms of glowworms appear happily dancing amid the air to spark the early midsummer night—now falling over, and then a vast of sea views roll out suddenly before their eyes bathing in the offshore breeze, there, the little colored sea fishes were willingly, swiftly, and blithely swimming whereabouts among the coral reefs...
“The study tour at UMS community, really beyond expression, makes us become excited with a different air of exotic cultural environment and teaching patterns also, while surprisingly differing from what the things we encounter in person rather than only in textbooks to some extent,” said ZHANG Tianxiang a current student from AXHU School of Electronic Engineering/Intelligent Manufacturing.
The chapter of “Land of Smiles,” Thailand
With a longer history of AXHU-Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi (RMUTT) cooperation with a series of academic and cultural events so far, such as the Digital Economy-themed seminar during May, 2025; AXHU delegation’s visit to its main campus, Jan 20, 2026, observing many of the core teaching and training areas at RMUTT Faculty of Mass Communication Technology (MCT), like advanced movie studios, 7.1 Soundtrack Mixing workplace, laboratory for film and live streaming, multimedia technology department, and more.
From Jul 26 to Aug 2, the AXHU 29-member squad headed to the Faculty of Mass Communication Technology.
With the guide of the faulty—being as welcome presence to each other—having these student reps from China AXHU immersed in the featured teaching and learning environment, and hands-on experiences more on some parts of programs related to recording & post production in the studios equipped with a larger host of sophisticated facilities and tools, as well as the tech approaches especially.
“Just few days later, we have much more new understandings of the digital media technology from the perspective of the Faculty of Mass Communication Technology and its people, here,” the current student of AXHU School of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence WANG Zhanxin said respectfully, appreciatively.
An excursion outside the campus led the AXHU youth students to the Thailand’s humanistic views in the real world.
Surprisingly, when walking into the blocks of the business circles known “Siam” worldwide reputed so far, to feel the “City Beat” with the vibrant metropolitan pulses that can break out of some conventional ruts, while it is weaving with a new try of post-modernism “brocade” in contrast to the thought-provoking backdrop of ancient ruins of Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, which had been standing there long waiting for another “listener” from any corner of the world coming to know its stories—perhaps fading away historically from memories, but it is acting as the national “spiritual guidance” to speak out their people’s wanting to say...
LIU Xilin in AXHU School of Culture and Communication heartily said: “This summer study tour is a short trip to few parts of exotic facts but making us collect a big package of go-to academic resources and opportunities of exchanging face-to-face with many RMUTT students and professors of impact, and “new-to-us” glamour during all the intercultural connections while actually improving ourselves with that to perfect our AXHU career.”
From AXHU to the World
AXHU 2026 Summer School activity reached to an end now, always upholding the “Belt and Road” International Education Campaign sponsored by the MOE, which ensures the AXHU people have productive experience, but also helps build on with AXHUers’ convergence efforts—starting from China AXHU campus to embrace the international higher education community—, based on the AXHU International Exchange and Cooperation Office’s 2026-30 strategic planning of “Internationalization; High-Quality; Feature” to establish multicultural academic exchange platforms to improve the sino-foreign exchange between students and academic staff, and professors to establish the AXHU Education’s international brand of impact.
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