On August 19th The women's basketball teams of NENU and the University of Sendai in Japan held a friendship match. In 2005, Vice-president Zhang Zhiguo once together with the men's basketball team of NENU went to Sendai University for a friendship match. While this time the team from Sendai University came to pay a return visit. Director-general of Sendai University, Vice-president Zhang Zhiguo, and leaders from the division of International Cooperation and Exchanges, School of Physical Education and the Middle School Attached to NENU watched the match.
Later, the Sendai team held a match with the women's basketball team from the Middle School Attached to NENU and won at 79 to 61.
(From News Centre, translated by Yue Jiyang, revised by Hou Dan)