On 2 February 2026, at the Secretariat of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Beijing, SCO Deputy Secretary-General Sohail Khan met with Shan Zhiwei, the Vice President of Xi'an Jiaotong University.
The two sides exchanged views on the prospects for cooperation between the University and cooperative institutions of SCO member states, particularly in the field of higher education covering economics, engineering, microelectronics, artificial intelligence and other disciplines.
The Chinese side also briefed on the operations of the China-SCO Higher Education Cooperation Center, the establishment of which was announced by the President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping at the "SCO Plus" Meeting during the SCO Summit in Tianjin in September 2025.
