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    Ocean University of China is one of the earliest universities in China that established cooperation and exchange relationships with foreign universities and research institutions. The University has developed various cooperation relations and exchange programs with over 140 universities and research institutions from more than 20 countries and regions, including the U.S.A., Germany, the U.K., France, the Netherlands, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Russia, Australia, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. So far, OUC and has signed cooperation agreements with 105 of those 140 universities and research institutions.

    From January, 2001 to now, over 4,700 overseas scientists and scholars have been invited to the University for teaching, lecturing and joint research programs and more than 2,300 person-time have been sent abroad for degrees, further studies, cooperative research and international academic conferences. More than 90 fairly large-scale international academic conferences have been held at the University, including ¡°The Fourth Pacific Ocean Remote Sensing Conference¡±, ¡°Progress and Prospect of Marine Biology Engineering¡±, ¡°International Forum on Marine Science and Technology in the New Century¡±, ¡°International Symposium on Frontiers in Molecular Science 2002 (ISFMS2002)¡±, ¡°International Symposium on Wang Meng¡¯s Literary Works¡±, ¡°The Fifth International Abalone Conference¡±, ¡°Forum on the View of Marine----the 600 Years Commemoration of Zheng He¡¯s Navigation to the West¡±, ¡°International Symposium on Marine Biology 2004¡± and ¡°International Symposium on Water Resource Protection and Management of Coastal City¡±. Up to now, more than 6,330 international students have graduated from the University with their Bachelor, Master or Ph.D. degrees.

    The university has also participated in many global marine research cooperation programs, such as ¡°World Oceanic Circulation Experiment¡± (WOCE) and ¡°Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere¡± (TOGA). Working hard on education internationalization, OUC has established relationships with the U.S.A., the U.K., Germany, Denmark, Japan, South Korea and Australia to jointly educate undergraduate students. ¡°Sino-German Initiative in Marine Sciences¡± is a joint master program in marine sciences.

    Initiated by OUC, the International Association of Marine-related Institutions (IAMRI) functions as an international platform for world marine-related universities and research institutions to carry out joint education and research programs in marine sciences. OUC houses the Secretariat of IAMRI.