From August 24^th to 28^th, 2015, RUC’s Professor JIN Nuo, following an invitation by North Korea’s Kim Il Sung University, headed a delegation to Pyongyang to participate in an International Symposium on the topic of "Scientific Development and Nation Building." The university’s International Symposium, as Professor JIN pointed out in her speech, convened for its fourth session, having seen many positive changes in the past few years. The gathering provides an important platform for experts and scholars from all around the world to exchange their ideas and recent scholarship. Renmin University of China attaches great importance to these exchanges and its academic cooperation with the North Korean university, which has become the foremost institution of higher education in the country. Kim Il Sung University and RUC share a connection due to the late professor SHANG Yue of Renmin University, a famous Chinese historian and educationalist, whose friendship with President Kim Il-Sung is described in the latter’s autobiographical work "With the Century." During the visit, Chairwoman JIN met with the president of Kim Il Sung University as well as with the North Korean Minister of Higher Education. The two schools seek to strengthen their mutual academic cooperation, carry out collaborative research projects, and encourage future faculty and student exchanges, a resolution marked by a joint agreement on friendship and collaboration signed on this trip: the agreement not only indicates progress in the relationship between Renmin University and Kim Il Sung University but also marks a further step toward closer bilateral relations between China and North Korea in the sphere of higher education and scientific research. Chairwoman JIN also paid a visit to Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, where she held a speech on the development of higher education in China and gave a more detailed introduction to Renmin University. She pointed out the significance of higher education for the development of the country, as well as the global significance of promoting education and research. Over six and a half decades following the founding of the People’s Republic and more than thirty years of unremitting efforts since the launch of Deng Xiaoping’s Opening and Reform policy, China's higher education has witnessed continuous progress and benefitted from international exchanges at every level. Renmin University, too, has reaped the fruits of China’s higher education reform. Chairwoman JIN Nuo’s speech was well received, and Pyongyang University of Science and Technology looks forward to deepening its academic collaboration with RUC in the future. Finally, RUC’s delegation also met with the Chinese Ambassador to North Korea. Ambassador LI Jinjun and Chairwoman JIN discussed how North Korea might be supported in its efforts to develop its higher education, as well as how academic cooperation between the two countries might be strengthened.