On the afternoon of October 30, Professor Jean-Pierre Faugere, Vice President for International Relations of Université Paris-Sud 11, and Zhao Weisheng with half-time appointment at Université Paris-Sud 11 and the tenured researcher at CNRS visited XJTU, where they met with Vice President Lu Tianjian in the meeting room of the Science Hall. The two parties exchanged ideas on cooperation in the training doctoral students and the mutual exchange of graduate students.

The visiting delegation toured the national special laboratory of Electronic Physics and Instruments in the School of Electronic & Information Engineering and the School of Science's provincial-level key laboratory for Advanced Functional Materials and Dielectric Physics where they discussed student exchanges with the faculty members and students of the two schools.