In August 2013, the Ministry of Education approved the education program of Ningbo University and the University of Angers (France) co-building the professional master of tourism management; in March 2017, the Ministry of Education approved the establishment of a Sino-foreign cooperative education institution with non-independent legal entity qualification - Ningbo University-University of Angers Joint Institute, and the tourism management (Sino-French cooperation) professional master education program was included into the admission plan of the Joint Institute. The postgraduate students in Tourism Management (Sino-French Cooperation) Major will be jointly educated and trained by Chinese and French universities for 3 years, and the eligible students can obtain the postgraduate diploma and the master's degree from both Ningbo University and the University of Angers at the time of graduation. This degree program relies on the high-quality resources of the School of Tourism and Culture of the University of Angers, the new type of think tank of Zhejiang Province - "Belt and Road" Research Institute (Zhejiang Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences), the China-EU International Tourism Comprehensive Laboratory (a special project of the Ministry of Finance), and National-Level First-Class Major (Ministry of Education of the PRC), Provincial Characteristic Major (Department of Education of Zhejiang Province), Municipal Characteristic Major (Ningbo Education Bureau), Municipal Brand Major (Ningbo Education Bureau), Municipal Key Major of Universities (Ningbo Education Bureau), First-Class Major and International Major of University (Ningbo University) and other resource platforms, and is dedicated to cultivating transcultural and compound high-end talents with international view and open mind, independent personality, free thinking, mastering solid and systematic tourism management expertise, and understanding of the domestic and overseas development trends of tourism management discipline. At present, the Tourism Management (Sino-French Cooperation) Degree Program has 8 Chinese and foreign professors and 11 associate professors.