The signing ceremony was held online on March 16 between University of Bristol and NPU about the four-year system (3+1 undergraduate and postgraduate continuous education talentcultivation project) in the field of engineering. Song Baowei, Vice President of NPU, and Agnes Nain, Vice President of Bristol University attended the ceremony. The heads of the International Cooperation Offices and Academic Affairs Offices of the two universities, as well as the relevant leaders such as Du Lin, Vice President of School of Mathematics and Statistics, and Associate Professor Manyu Xiao, Director of the Office of International Communications and Collaborations, attended the signing ceremony. For the students of NPU, we will open up the talent cultivation plans for the continuous study of undergraduate and postgraduate in the three directions of mathematics and applied mathematics, information and computational science and statistics, so as to open up a new path for the continuous study of undergraduate and postgraduate students in the follow-up personnel training.

University of Bristolwas founded in 1876 which is a world-class research university, ranking 62nd in QS. University of Bristol has many outstanding alumni in academic circles, including 47 Royal Society researchers, 17 British Academy of sciences researchers and 12 Nobel laureates. The Engineering Department of the university is known as the "British Engineering Kingdom", and its general engineering (Engineering: General) ranks first in the UK, ahead of Cambridge University and Oxford University.