From December 9th to 17^th, 2024, a delegation led by President Wang Jinsong of Sichuan University (SCU) visited Australia and Chile, with President Luo Fengming of West China Hospital (WCH) as a member. The delegation held in-depth discussions with renowned universities and institutions, including the University of Melbourne, Monash University, University of Western Australia in Australia, and the University of Chile, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and its affiliated UC Christus Hospital. They reached a consensus on deepening cooperation, expanding collaboration areas, enhancing faculty and student exchange, promoting joint talent cultivation, and strengthening joint scientific research.

During the visit to the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and UC Christus Hospital, President Luo Fengming, along with Professor Felipe Heusser, Dean of the Medical School, and Professor Cristián de la Fuente Díaz, CEO of UC Christus Hospital, reached a cooperation intention in areas such as faculty and student exchange, transplantation, and critical care disciplines.

At the University of Western Australia, President Luo Fengming and Professor Jeff Keelan, Head of the School of Biomedical Sciences, signed a memorandum of cooperation. The two sides will collaborate in joint doctoral cultivation, short-term student training, and joint scientific research projects. Additionally, President Luo Fengming exchanged views with our hospital's non-full-time distinguished expert, Professor Barry Marshall, the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, reviewed the achievements of their decade-long cooperation, and visited the West China-Marshall Infectious Diseases Center (Western Australia Center), discussing further cooperation in Helicobacter pylori research.

The Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, established in 1880, ranks 93rd globally, 2nd in Latin America, and 1st in Chile in the 2025 QS World University Rankings. Its Medical School, founded in 1929, includes departments of medicine, dentistry, nursing, health sciences, and public health, and is ranked 88th globally in the 2025 QS World University Rankings by Subject (Medicine). UC Christus Hospital is ranked 2nd in Chile in the 2024 Newsweek "World's Best Hospitals" list. The University of Western Australia, founded in 1911, is ranked 77th in the 2025 QS World University Rankings and 101-150 in the 2025 Academic Ranking of World Universities; its clinical medicine specialty is ranked 34th in the 2024 World's First-Class Subject Rankings.