On November 26, 2025 a meeting was held at the Secretariat of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Beijing between Deputy Secretary-General Sohail Khan and the leadership of Shandong University.
The parties exchanged views on promising areas of cooperation between this prestigious educational institution and the SCO member states in the fields of higher education, scientific research, and technological development.
Shandong University was founded in 1901. Currently, it has over 75,000 full-time students and more than 10,000 faculty and staff members including 19 members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering.