City University of Macau and the Southwest University for Nationalities signed the Nationalities Talent Cultivation Program

Achieving together to foster Macau and Mainland university professionals  

Chairman of City University of Macau Chan Meng Kam and the Acting Rector Pang Su Seng attended the signing ceremony

On the 10th of March, 2015, the City University of Macau and Southwest University for Nationalities signed the CityU-SWUN Nationalities Talent Cultivation Program agreement in the Beijing Cultural Palace of The Nationalities.

CityU Acting Rector Pang Su-Seng said in the speech that in recent years the development of higher education in Macau had seen rapid growth, while at the same time communication with Mainland China and the world has increased in frequency resulting in a speeding up of educational cooperation between the regions. In such circumstances City University of Macau has gradually completed its transition into a fully-fledged and comprehensive university. The Nationalities Talent Cultivation Program highlighted the co-development of national education that Macau and Mainland Universities had jointly conducted. Not only will it help to foster a more open-minded attitude towards ethnic talent while enhancing the high reputation of our country, it will also enhance the friendship and communication between Macau and Mainland China. Prof. Pang on behalf of CityU expressed his heartfelt thanks to the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, the Ministry of Education of China, the Macao SAR Government, as well as the Southwest University for Nationalities.

SWUN President Zeng Ming also expressed his wish that the implementation of this agreement will greatly enhance the level and areas of cooperation between CityU and SWUN, providing a useful avenue for the further promotion of the opening up and cooperation of national higher education in the leadership and administration of schools.

The Acting Rector from CityU Pang Su Seng and the SWUN president Zeng Ming signed the agreement. The two parties indicated that they will communicate on fostering ethnic talent, academic research and teaching cooperation.

Under the agreement, CityU and SWUN will serve as a platform for talent cultivation. CityU will inject HK $ 2.1 million into the "SWUN Nationalities Talent Cultivation Fund" in order to support ethnic students and teachers to study PhDs in CityU, and to favor the development of summer exchanges and the training of teachers and students between the two universities.

The deputy director of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission (SEAC) Chen Gaihu, the vice governor of Sichuan Provincial People’s Government Ms. Huang Yanrong, the director of the Office of the Macao Special Administrative Region in Beijing Hong Wai, the Party secretary of SWUN Mr. Bian Jing, the deputy inspector of the Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Affairs office of State Ethnic Affairs Commission Lan Haibin, the SWUN President Zeng Ming, the chairman of the council of City University of Macau Chan Meng Kam, the CityU acting rector Pang Su-Seng, the CityU vice rector Kong Fanqing, the CityU Secretary General of the Council Chan Chon Pat, the City U former vice rector Xing Wenxiang, and the CityU director of Institute of Economic Research Qiu Xiaohua, also witnessed the signing ceremony of the Nationalities Talent Cultivation Program.