Yang Yongping, president of Lanzhou University, leads delegation to visit CityU, agreement signed to deepen educational cooperation
Prof. Yang Yongping, president of Lanzhou University (LZU) led a delegation to visit City University of Macau (CityU) yesterday and was warmly received by Rector Jun Liu. The two sides signed a cooperation agreement and engaged in-depth exchanges in areas of faculty and students’ exchanges, talent cultivation and research cooperation, reaching a comprehensive and multi-level consensus in cooperation.
During this meeting, Rector Jun Liu expressed a warm welcome to President Yang and his delegation. Rector Liu reviewed CityU’s 45-year development journey, educational philosophy, disciplinary characteristics, and international cooperation, as well as its practical achievements in serving Macao’s role as “one center, one platform, one base”. He emphasized that the agreement marks not only a new start for deeper collaboration between the two universities but a hope for future cross-regional and cross-disciplinary cooperation in cutting-edge fields including artificial intelligence, Belt and Road cultural heritage research and country-specific studies, highlighting that joint effort in these areas can further promote the in-depth advancement of academic research and educational practice.
President Yang appreciated CityU’s warm reception and extended his congratulations on CityU’s 45th anniversary. He spoke highly of the University’s achievements in educational characteristics and talent cultivation. He also introduced that LZU as a university with a history of a century, deeply rooted in northwest China, and regarded as part of the national development strategy, highlighting its disciplinary strengths.
As he mentioned, the university not only had a number of national leading key disciplines such as grassland science, ecology, and chemistry, but also achieved fruitful results in the humanities and social sciences, including Dunhuangology, ethnology, and country/area-specific studies. He noted that the two universities have complementary advantages in the humanities and social sciences, with great potential for cooperation. Through more in-depth and solid collaboration, he expected resource sharing and mutual learning between the two sides.
Dean of the First Hospital of Lanzhou University (The First School of Clinical Medicine) Bai Ming, Director of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Affairs Office Chi Gang, Dean of College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Xi Pinxian, as well as CityU’s Associate Dean of the Faculty of Data Science Liu Wenjian, and Head of Global Affairs Office Wu Cheng also took part in this meeting.
