Source: Science and Technology Daily 2013-03-22 Page 12
Written by: Qi Ren, Huang Aicheng
Translated by: Zheng Sida
Edited by: Wang Dongmei

Recently, Sun Yat-sen University officially issued the Measures for Trial Implementation of Strengthening the Administration of City-University Joint Construction of Research Institutes, which marked that the joint construction of research institutes between SYSU and local governments of Guangdong Province has entered the new phase of standardized and institutionalized management.

The Measures for Trial Implementation makes standardized statements on local research institutes from multiple levels including their orientation, function, management structure, personnel employment and assessment, talent cultivation, achievement transformation and management assessment.

In recent years, with the school-running guideline of “national demand, national task, international level”, SYSU has actively implemented the spirit of the Outline of the Plan for the Reform and Development of the Pearl River Delta (2008-2020). Joint construction of research institutes with local governments of Guangdong Province is an important measure of SYSU to serve the overall economic and social development of the Pearl River Delta, and an important content of the overall cooperation between SYSU and local governments of Guangdong Province. So far, SYSU has successively established city-university strategic partnership with 9 cities including Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Zhuhai, Foshan, Zhaoqing, Dongguan, Huizhou, Zhanjiang, Chaozhou, and built 10 technology research institutes oriented to the development of local pillar industries and characteristic industries.

Putting forward “one city, one institute and one person” and “one industry, one base and one platform” is quite a characteristic practice of SYSU’s serving local society, which is mainly embodied in 4 “active dockings”: the active docking between technology management policies and industry-university-research combination, the active docking between predominant disciplines and the cities’ predominant industries, the active docking between university technological innovation and regional industrial development, and the active docking between discipline construction and the demand of local economic and social development.