On April 10, a four-member delegation headed by Dr. Janet Morrison, President of Sheridan College, paid a friendly visit to ZZULI upon invitation. President Wei Shizhong and Vice President Bai Yanhong greeted the guests in the VIP room at Kexue Campus. Attendees also included relevant responsible persons and staff from the International Cooperation and Exchange Department and the School of Arts and Design.

On behalf of ZZULI, President Wei Shizhong extended his welcome to the visit of the delegation. He briefly introduced ZZULI's development in recent years. He also emphasized that the School of Arts and Design is one of the special key colleges of ZZULI. After years of construction and development, the School has formed disciplinary and professional advantages with distinctive features. Now it has become an important training base for design and arts professionals in Henan Province and even the whole country, and enjoys a good reputation in the industry. He spoke highly of Sheridan College for its outstanding achievements in animation design, hoping that the two universities will establish an intercollegiate partnership to strengthen exchanges, promote mutual learning, and seek common development.

On behalf of Sheridan College, Janet Morrison expressed her gratitude to ZZULI for its warm reception. She looked forward to in-depth exchanges and cooperation between the two universities in arts and design in the future.

Afterwards, President Wei Shizhong and President Janet Morrison signed an intercollegiate cooperation agreement on behalf of ZZULI and Sheridan College respectively. After the meeting, the delegation paid a visit to the international joint laboratory and the art exhibition hall at the School of Arts and Design, ZZULI.

The visit of the delegation from Sheridan College kicked off the friendly cooperation between the two sides. Both sides will jointly cultivate more applied international professionals with international outlook and cross-cultural communication ability to promote the educational, cultural and arts exchanges between the two universities.

Sheridan College, founded in 1967, is a comprehensive public college of higher education in Canada. Sheridan College has three campuses, Davis Campus, Hazel McCallion Campus, and Trafalgar Campus, all located near Toronto, Ontario, Canada. There are currently 4,763 staff, more than 40,000 full-time students, and more than 15,000 international students from more than 116 countries and regions around the world.

The programs of Sheridan College are employment-oriented, focusing on cultivating students' career adaptability and emphasizing practicality and operability. The College consists of the Faculty of Animation, Arts & Design, the Faculty of Applied Health & Community Studies, the Faculty of Applied Science & Technology, the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, and the Pilon School of Business, with a total of more than 140 majors. It sets up credential programs, diploma programs, undergraduate programs, graduate programs, intensive English programs, and the College-University Pathway Program.

The Faculty of Animation, Arts & Design is particularly well-known and referred to as the “Harvard of Animation”. 84 graduates from the Faculty have been nominated for Emmy Award and 19 graduates have been nominated for Academy Award.