A delegation from Ningxia University lead by Mr. Ji Yongqiang, Deputy Director-General, visited the Confucius Institute at University of Dubai and met with the CIUD team on Nov 21st 2014. Mr. Ma Jun, Chinese Director of CIUD, delivered the warmest greetings and gratitude to the visiting group during their trip to Dubai on behalf of University of Dubai and Confucius Institute. He gave a presentation on the operational status of CIUD to the group after the CIUD documentary display. He mentioned administrative functions of the Confucius Institute, its teaching force as well as its software and hardware facilities of CI. Focused on the resource assignment, global developments of CIs and experiences for the past few years. He said, under the patronage of Confucius Institute Headquarters and joint guidance and support of UD and NU and Ningxia Education Department, CIUD will continuously act as a Chinese Cultural logo and communication platform between the two regions. CIUD will merge its endeavors to become an academic research institute. Thereafter, Mr. Ji Yongqiang highly recognized CIís achievements and great efforts. He pointed out that Ningxia Education Department will keep attending to CIUDís developments, and will offer necessary support in its researching fields. 
Ma Jun presented CI gifts to Ji yongqiang after the meeting.