On February 12, 2009, then Vice President Xi Jinping, who was visiting Jamaica, attended a ceremony in Kingston to inaugurate the Confucius Institute at the University of the West Indies, Mona. Xi Jinping said that the University of the West Indies has a long-standing reputation. It has produced a president, a governor-general, eight prime ministers and two Nobel laureates, and is therefore known as the "cradle of Caribbean statesmen". The successful establishment of the Confucius Institute at the Mona campus marks the first time that the Confucius Institute has entered the English-speaking Caribbean, which was a new achievement of cultural and educational exchange and cooperation between China and the Caribbean countries and a milestone in the history of Sino-Canadian cultural and educational exchanges. The University of the West Indies is the largest comprehensive institution of higher learning in the Caribbean, with campuses in Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago， and Antigua and Barbuda. The Mona campus in Jamaica has an enrollment of over 11,000 students, with five undergraduate faculties, including the Faculty of Humanities and Education, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Science & Technology, the Faculty of Social Sciences, and the Faculty of Law, Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Sports. The Institute of Gender and Development Studies is also located on campus. All faculties offer postgraduate programs. The Confucius Institute at the University