On September 18, Zhang Xiang, President of the University of Hong Kong, Foreign Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and alumnus of the School of Physics of Nanjing University, led a delegation to visit NJU. Tan Tieniu, Chair of NJU CPC Counicl and Academician of the CAS, met with Zhang Xiang and his delegation at the Xianlin Campus. Zhu Shining, Academician of the CAS and Professor of NJU, attended the event.
On behalf of NJU, Tan Tienu expressed a warm welcome to Zhang Xiang and his delegation, and reviewed the profound friendship with the University of Hong Kong formed during his previous work in Hong Kong. He introduced the implementation progress of NJU's "Forging Ahead Initiative" and its educational pattern of "one university, two cities, four campuses," with emphasis on the construction plans and practical achievements of developing new engineering disciplines at the Suzhou Campus and building a highland of chemical engineering, biology, and medicine based at the Pukou Campus. He stated that in recent years, NJU, relying on the Jiangsu-Hong Kong-Macao University Cooperation Alliance, has continuously expanded its cooperation network, and its level of internationalized education has steadily improved. Previously, it signed a cooperation agreement on national key laboratories with the University of Hong Kong, and the two sides have a solid foundation for cooperation and enormous potential. He hoped that the two universities would further deepen cooperation, focus on national strategic needs to jointly carry out major scientific research breakthroughs, create representative brand cooperation projects, and promote the cooperation between NJU and the University of Hong Kong to become a benchmark for the coordinated development of Chinese mainland universities and Hong Kong universities, jointly making greater contributions to the building of a strong nation in education, science, technology and talents.
On behalf of the University of Hong Kong, Zhang Xiang expressed gratitude to NJU for its warm reception, and introduced the University of Hong Kong's development layout in disciplines such as artificial intelligence, fundamental physics, and biomedicine. He pointed out that NJU has a long history, profound heritage, and strong disciplinary strength. In recent years, it has actively served national strategies, actively carried out external cooperation, and its strategic layout and innovative achievements in frontier science and technology fields are impressive. He stated that NJU and the University of Hong Kong have strong disciplinary complementarity and a high degree of cooperation fit, and have broad prospects for cooperation in discipline construction, talent cultivation, faculty development, and platform building. He hoped that in the future, cooperation can be strengthened, cooperation areas broadened, and a regular exchange platform built to achieve resource sharing, complementary advantages, and win-win development.
During the exchange session, the two sides introduced the educational characteristics and development status of relevant colleges and institutions, and conducted in-depth exchanges around joint discipline construction, joint talent cultivation, and collaborative scientific research innovation.
Before the meeting, Zhang Xiang and his delegation visited the National Key Laboratory for Solid State Microstructures and the National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology at NJU, listened in detail to introductions on the laboratories' scientific research achievements, technological breakthroughs, and talent teams, and discussed future deepening of scientific research cooperation.
Relevant schools of the University of Hong Kong, and heads and representatives of the International Affairs Office, the Office of Science and Technology, and relevant schools of NJU participated in the meeting.
