On the morning of September 4, the opening ceremony of the 7th Nursing Master's Degree Education Program, jointly organized by Wenzhou Medical University and Burapha University of Thailand, was held in Conference Room 7C306 of the School of Nursing. Professor Cai Fuman, Dean of the School of Nursing of Wenzhou Medical University, Associate Professor Dong Chaoqun, Vice Dean, Chintana Wacharasin, Program Director from Burapha University, Thai faculty member Wannarat Lawang, and 30 new students from various provinces and cities across China attended the ceremony in person. Associate Professor Saifone Moungkum, Vice Dean of the School of Nursing of Burapha University, and several other Thai faculty members participated online. The ceremony was hosted by Associate Professor Dong Chaoqun, Vice Dean of the School of Nursing.

At the ceremony, Vice Dean Dong Chaoqun first introduced the Chinese and foreign guests in attendance. Afterwards, both sides played promotional videos of the two universities and their respective nursing schools, presenting basic information covering university and school profiles, student training, faculty strength and teaching facilities. On behalf of the School of Nursing of Wenzhou Medical University, Dean Cai Fuman extended a warm welcome to the new students and briefed them on the profound cooperative roots between the two universities. He pointed out that the postgraduate stage is a critical period for students to strengthen their spiritual growth, strive for self-excellence, engage in academic research and pursue technological innovation. He hoped that all students would make full use of the high-quality resources and rich academic foundations of the two universities to achieve fruitful learning and research outcomes, grow into high-end nursing professionals with core competitiveness, and make their own contributions to the cause of human health.

Following the ceremony, Dr. Chintana Wacharasin elaborated on the program's curriculum arrangement, learning content, graduation requirements and rules and regulations, and answered the students' questions one by one.

The China-Thailand Nursing Master's Education Program is the first Sino-foreign cooperative education master's program of our university approved by the Ministry of Education, adopting a "2+0" training mode. The teaching plan is jointly formulated by our university and Burapha University. Students who complete the entire training program and meet the degree-awarding requirements will be granted a Master's Degree in Nursing by Burapha University. Since its launch in 2019, the program has a total of 137 current students including the 2025 intake. To date, 35 students have met the graduation requirements and obtained a Master of Nursing Science degree from Burapha University. Equipped with excellent research capabilities and clinical leadership, most graduates have become backbones in clinical nursing and nursing administrators. In recent years, the program's influence has continued to expand, the quality of student enrollment has steadily improved, and the number of applicants has increased significantly, attracting wide attention. To meet the growing demand for enrollment, the school is actively planning to expand its enrollment scale to cultivate more interdisciplinary nursing talents with an international perspective for society.