Chen Hongyan, vice president of Hebei University of Technology, leads delegation to visit CityU, exploring diverse future cooperation
A delegation led by Chen Hongyan, vice president of Hebei University of Technology (HEBUT), recently visited City University of Macau (CityU) and was warmly received by Vice Rector Ip Kuai Peng. The guests toured the campus environment and facilities. The two sides held discussions on talent cultivation, faculty and student exchanges, and collaborative research.
Vice Rector Ip, extended a warm welcome to Vice President Chen, and introduced CityU’s distinctive features and achievements covering its educational development, disciplinary construction, and research progress. He noted that the two universities could fully leverage Macao’s unique location and resource advantages to explore more diverse models of cooperation, such as jointly organizing high-level academic forums, applying for research funding projects together, and promoting joint student cultivation programs. Vice Rector Ip expressed his hope that, starting with collaboration between CityU’s Faculty of Data Science and the Institute of Urban and Sustainable Development, the two universities would continue to expand the depth and breadth of faculty-student exchanges and research collaboration, gradually extending to more fields, and jointly promote the partnership.
Vice President Chen gave an overview of the the development history of HEBUT, sharing its distinctive educational features and disciplinary strengths. She expressed her hope to further deepen exchanges and cooperation with CityU in areas such as regional and country-specific studies, data science, and sustainable urban development, with the goal of jointly building a cooperation platform for sustainable development.
Going forward, the two universities will leverage their strengths to achieve complementary advantages, establishing a long-term mechanism for talent cultivation, research collaboration and exchange. With a more open approach, they will advance pragmatic cooperation, jointly cultivate high-caliber talents, and contribute to regional and national development.
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Also in attendance at the meeting were Zhao Yingying, HEBUT’s director of Office of International & Exchange (Office of Hong Kong, Macao & Taiwan Affairs); Hao Yifei, dean of School of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Deng Qibo, deputy director of the Department of Mechanics, School of Mechanical Engineering; CityU’s associate dean of the Faculty of Data Science Liu Wenjian, program coordinator of the master’s and PhD programs in Urban Planning and Design at the Institute of Urban and Sustainable Development Hsieh Chun-Ming, and head of the Office of Global Affairs Wu Cheng.
Source: Office of Global Affairs
