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Introduction of the case. It sounds almost unbelievable that such an important educational cooperation program in this case started by chance, but Xxx Xxxxxxxx told me that the saying was true. The story started with a Chinese boy and Chinese girl who came to Norway in 1990s, they had been around the country for a while. Then, they came to Bodø and chose UiN (at that time, its name was Bodø university College) as their destination of their study. They studied most programs in the Business School in UiN and went back to China when they finished their degrees and worked in a city located in northern part of China. When the world entered into 21st centry, the first official visit to China was in 2002 and a delegation from UiN went to Beijing, China, and to search for partners of educational cooperation. Former Xxxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx, who was acquainted with the boy and the girl, asked them if they could be any help since XxX planned to develop institutional cooperation. The boy he knew some people in Beijing Institution of Technology (BIT) in Beijing and also he has some acquaintance from Changchun University of Science and Technology in the city of Changchun, because he had been a student there before. Coincidentally, there was meetings (in Beijing) with representatives from CUST, so they have talks with each other in Beijing. After the first trip to China, XxX had a visit from BIT and CUST here in Bodø. In 2003, Xxx Xxxxxxxx became the xxxxxx of UiN, he went to CUST in 2004 and started to discuss how to do with one of these cooperation. In 2005, XxX started sending bachelor students from UiN to China , some went BIT and some students went to CUST. Meanwhile, XxX started to have master students from CUST and their stay have two years. In 2008, XxX and CUST signed agreement and the relationship became quite normalized. They had mutual visits in that year. The first stage of the cooperation was limited within the Faculty of Business school. From the year of 2011, the two universities started discussing enlarge the cooperation and the Faculty of Social Science won the chance to cooperate. At the Autumn of 2012, CUST started sending master student from Faculty of Social Science to UiN. In the same year, an associate professor from CUST came to UiN and exchange for one year. This marked a new step for institutional cooperation between UiN and CUST, because two universities only sent students to each other before the year of 2012, we did not see any cooperation among professors or lectures....