The China-Nepal Friendship Medical Research Center of Professor Rajiv Kumar Jha, established at Xi’an Medical University in Xi’an, China, has been selected for the research institute convened by the Chinese government.

In China, where trust is difficult to come by, a scholar from Nepal has defied the odds. Anyone familiar with the diplomatic arena knows how difficult it is to establish true trust with Chinese officials.

The Nepalese traditional medicine anti-tumor basic transformation research innovation team is based on the Sino-Nepalese Friendship Rajim Medical Laboratory of the School of Clinical Medicine. Professor Rajim, a high-level foreign expert from Nepal, serves as the team leader. The team is composed of young doctors in clinical medicine, pharmacology, cell biology, materials science and other majors. Guided by clinical problems, basic and medical-engineering scientific research is carried out, focusing on the research on the anti-tumor mechanism of Nepalese traditional medicine and the development of tumor diagnosis and treatment products and new drugs. In the past five years, more than 50 projects have been approved by the National Natural Science Foundation, the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, the key industrial chain of the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Science and Technology, the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Education, and the Shaanxi Provincial Association for Science and Technology. More than 60 high-level academic papers have been published, and the backbone members of the team have guided more than 40 students in subject competitions, and won the excellent results of the China International Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition National Competition Bronze Award.

In the 18 years since he came to China, he has traveled back and forth between Shaanxi and Nepal, working hard to sew and strengthen the friendly exchanges between the two countries.

With his fluent Mandarin and occasional non-standard Shaanxi dialect, it is hard to associate Rajiv Kumar Jha with the identity of a “foreigner”. Rajiv comes from Nepal, a colorful place on the “Silk Road”, but considers himself a “Shaanxi native”. His favorite thing to do is to meet up with a few friends to eat steamed buns, kebabs, and drink Hans…

China is waiting for implementation of bilateral agreements and memorandum of understandings with Nepal that were inked during the recent official visit of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, said Rajib Kumar Jha, a Nepali professor in China.

“Shared commitments in the joint statement along with the agreements and memorandum of understanding reached between Nepal and China during the visit of PM Dahal are in the welfare and development of Nepal and they are good. However, China is also waiting for their implementation in the context of non-implementation of such agreements in the past,” said Prof Jha. The cross border railway agreement reached during the visit of the PM is important for Nepal, he viewed. “It will not take time for Beijing’s prosperity to reach Kathmandu if the Nepal-China cross border railway is constructed. Be they tourists or goods of China, they can reach Nepal in five or six days from any place of China. It is not enough for a landlocked country like Nepal to connect through the air. It will hugely benefit Nepal if it connects with the railway.

China wants to bring the railway to Nepal. But for this, we are the ones who lobby diplomatically,” he said.

Recalling past agreements and memorandum of understandings reached between the two countries on the issue of connecting Nepal through the railway, he said this would additionally help in the development of the tourism sector of Nepal. If Nepal wants to take maximum advantags from the prosperity of neighbouring China, the most reliable option is the railway system, he said.

China is waiting for the implementation of bilateral agreements and memorandum of understandings with Nepal that took place during the recent official visit of Prime Minister of Nepal Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’, said Dr Rajib Kumar Jha, a Nepali professor in China.

“Shared commitments in the joint statement along with the agreements and memoranda of understanding reached between Nepal and China during the visit of PM Dahal to China are in the welfare and development of Nepal and they are good. However, China is also waiting for their implementation in the context when such agreements could not implement in the past,” said Prof Jha.

The cross border railway agreement reached during the visit of the PM is important for Nepal, he is of the view. “It does not take time for Beijing’s prosperity to reach Kathmandu if the Nepal-China cross border railway is constructed. Be them tourists or goods of China, they can reach Nepal in five or six days from any places of China. It is not enough for a landlocked country like Nepal to connect through the air. It will hugely benefit Nepal if it connects with the railway. China wants to bring the railway to Nepal. But for this, we are the ones who lobby diplomatically,” he said.

Recalling past agreements and memorandum of understandings reached between the two countries on the issue of connecting Nepal through the railway, he said this would additionally help in the development of the tourism sector of Nepal. If Nepal wants to take maximum advantages from the prosperity of neighbouring China, the most reliable option is the railway system, he said.

China is waiting for the implementation of bilateral agreements and memorandum of understandings with Nepal that took place during the recent official visit of Prime Minister of Nepal Pushpa Kamal Dahal, said Dr Rajib Kumar Jha, a Nepali professor in China.

“Shared commitments in the joint statement along with the agreements and memoranda of understanding along with reached between Nepal and China during the visit of PM Dahal to China are in the welfare and development of Nepal and they are good. However, China is also waiting for their implementation in the context when such agreements could not implement in the past,” said Prof Jha.

The cross border railway agreement reached during the visit of the PM is important for Nepal, he is of the view. “It does not take time for Beijing’s prosperity to reach Kathmandu if the Nepal-China cross border railway is constructed. Be them tourists or goods of China, they can reach Nepal in five or six days from any places of China. It is not enough for a landlocked country like Nepal to connect through the air. It will hugely benefit Nepal if it connects with the railway. China wants to bring the railway to Nepal. But for this, we are the ones who lobby diplomatically,” he said. https://nepalnews.com/s/nation/china-urges-nepal-to-implement-agreements-prof-dr-jha/

History shows that the Communist Party of China (CPC) is firmly guiding the Chinese people toward realizing the great change of the country from standing up and being rich to becoming strong. It has advanced reform, opening-up, and socialist modernization over the previous years, giving the country more reliable institutional and material grounds for pursuing its objective of national rejuvenation.

KATHMANDU: The Shaanxi Provincial Government of China has decided to present the “Three Qin Friendship Award” for the year 2022 to Nepali professor Dr Rajiv Kumar Jha.

The award is the highest award established by the provincial government to commend foreign experts who have made outstanding contribution to the economic and social development of Shaanxi.

The award is to be presented to various distinguished personalities from 10 countries including Jha.

Other awardees are from the United States of America, the UK, Canada, Russia, Germany, South Korea, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Serbia.

The award is given to those foreign personalities in Shaanxi Province contributing to the sectors of economy, social, science and technology, health and culture in China and to the promotion of relations between China and the countries they represent.

The award which was presented every two years since 1999 is now awarded every year from 2015.

According to Xi’an Medical University of China, the winners were selected among professors, researchers, medical professionals, scientists and entrepreneurs from different parts of the globe who are currently in Shaanxi.

Prof Dr Jha is with the University and is engaged in teaching and research projects.

Nepal-China relations expert Dr. Rajiv Kumar Jha has said that Nepal has failed to garner broader support from the top Chinese diplomat, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

After visiting Afghanistan and India, Chinese Foreign Minister and State Councillor Wang Yi arrived in Nepal on Friday for a three-day visit. The visit was expected to be more successful and fruitful, and experts believed that there would be signing of some infrastructure projects under BRI, a flagship program of Chinese government.

But Nepal government found not so much interested on China-funded BRI projects, which covered infrastructure activities including roads, bridges, airports, railways, hydropower generation, among others.

Professor Doctor Rajiv Kumar Jha has been teaching medical sciences in a university in China for about two decades since he did Ph.D. and then postdoctoral in minimizing the outbreak of gall bladder cancer from a Chinese university. China’s Shaanxi provincial government has established ‘China Nepal Friendship Medical Research Center of Professor Rajiv Kumar Jha’ in Xi’an Medical University in honour of Prof. Jha. Founded five years ago, the research center conducts studies on cancer and facilitates exchanges of medical experiences between Nepal and China. Prof. Jha has been a visiting medical professor in different universities in China.

Rajiv Kumar Jha, a professor at Xi’an Medical University, smiles after handing over more than 10 hard-won boxes of medical supplies to Chinese personnel preparing for the construction of an international airport in Butwal, southern Nepal, at around 5pm local time on February 12.

Rajiv, a 41-year-old Nepalese specialist, has spent more time in China than in Nepal. When he was 17, he came to Xi’an with a medical dream. He was pleasantly surprised to find that in the long history of friendly exchanges between the two countries, Xi’an was a city that could not be left unexplored: Fa Xian of the eastern Jin dynasty and Xuan Zang of the Tang dynasty both crossed the Himalayas from here to Lumbini, Nepal, the birthplace of Sakyamuni, from which they translated many buddhist classics that are still extant today.

To recognize his contribution to medical research and China-Nepal friendship, Xi’an Medical University professor Rajiv Kumar Jha is granted Chinese Permanent Residence Card by Exit-Entry Administration of Xi’an Public Security Bureau. Director Song Yang of the Bureau and Party Secretary Fan Bing of XMU attend the ceremony to witness the moment.

Meanwhile, the Nepal Government has honored Professor Dr. Rajiv Kumar Jha with the Prabal Janasewashree Award on the occasion of Constitution Day.

Dr. Jha was awarded the honor for his contribution to the Nepal ‘research field’.

The research professor is the Director of the China-Nepal Friendship Medical Research Center of Professor of Rajiv Kumar Jha in China’s Shiyan Medical University.

The Chinese Government had established the research center in Jha’s name at a cost of NPR 50 million.

Interestingly, Nepal PM KP Sharma Oli inaugurated the research center on his first official China visit.

The government has honored Professor Dr Rajiv Kumar Jha with ‘Prabal Janasewashree’ award on the occasion of Constitution Day on Friday.

Jha received this coveted award for his contribution to the research field.

Jha, who is based in China for the last 23 years, is the director of China-Nepal Friendship Medical Research Center of Professor of Rajiv Kumar Jha, established in Xi’an Medical University in China.  The China government had established this center in Jha’s name at the cost of Rs 50 million.

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli had inaugurated the research center during his first official visit to China.

China’s Shanxi Province in 2015 had conferred a ‘100 Talent’ tile on Jha as a youth scientist.

On August 1, 2017 , Rajiv Kumar Jha , a specially appointed expert of Shaanxi Province’s “Hundred Talents Program” and professor of Xi’an Medical College, was hired as an international project consultant and researcher of Shaanxi Institute of Innovative Talent Development.

来中国18年，他往返穿梭于陕西、尼泊尔之间，用心将两国友好交流关系缝接、织密。

一口流利的普通话，加上时不时冒出几句不太标准的陕西方言，让人很难将拉吉姆（Rajiv kumar jha）与“老外”这一身份联系起来。拉吉姆来自“丝绸之路”上的多彩之地尼泊尔，却自认是“陕西人”，最爱做的事情是约上三五好友，一起咥泡馍、吃烤串、喝汉斯……

“我热爱中国，这里是我的第二故乡。”35岁的拉吉姆，有一大半的人生轨迹都在中国：17岁只身来到中国求学，毕业后留在西安工作，一呆就是18年；读书时，他是西安交通大学优秀博士生，工作后成了西安医学院最年轻的教授。在尼泊尔，拉吉姆是首位青年学者奖获得者，也是第一位特聘于陕西省“百人计划”的专家学者。

此外，常年穿梭于中国、尼泊尔两国之间，飞行里程数加起来能绕地球近4圈的拉吉姆还有一个“非官方”身份——“中尼友好使者”。他有一个“中国梦”：用心将中尼两国友好交流缝接起来，让接线更密集、更悠长……

The review of the second batch of 2010 Young Foreign Scholars Research Fund applications has been completed, and a total of 40 applicants have been funded. The specific project list is as follows: