Source: Office of International Cooperation & Exchange
Written by: Office for Hong Kong, Macao & Taiwan Affairs
Translated by: Wang Chun

On November 22, the 5th Annual Joint Meeting of the SYSU-CUHK Cooperation and Development Committee was held in CUHK. Jack C.Y. Cheng, Pro-Vice-Chancellor/Vice-President of CUHK, Wei Minghai, Vice President of SYSU, representatives from 11 fields of cooperation between the two universities and persons in charge of relevant functional departments attended the meeting.

On that morning, the two sides held group sessions and fully communicated with each other on cooperation in various fields. Later that afternoon, the 5th Annual Joint Meeting of SYSU-CUHK Cooperation and Development Committee was officially held. At the meeting, the participants not only reviewed the progress of cooperation in key fields over the past year, but also discussed the existing problems and difficulties in future cooperation. Pro-Vice-Chancellor/Vice-President Jack C.Y. Cheng and SYSU Vice President Wei Minghai responded to the report of each group and made concluding remarks in the end. The two leaders fully affirmed the progress of cooperation made by the two universities and gave guiding opinions for the mechanism and direction of cooperative development between the two sides in the next phase.

In 2007, SYSU and CUHK established strategic cooperative partnership, identified several key fields of cooperation and set up the SYSU-CUHK Cooperation and Development Committee. In 2008, the Committee held its first meeting and guaranteed more well-organized and practical cooperation between the two universities at the level of mechanism. After five years of sustainable development, the cooperation between the two universities has gradually presented features of standardization, institutionalization and substantiation, and a batch of superior achievements emerged out of this process, realizing the combination of strong partners and achieving mutual benefit and win-win situation. At present, the two sides have successively established collaboration groups in 11 disciplines and fields, including oncology, traditional Chinese medicine and drugs, biotechnology, historical anthropology, sociology, water resources sciences, gastroenterology and internal medicine, jurisprudence, food safety, joint training and student affairs, and they will further expand fields of cooperation as needed in the future.