Leadership of CityU Received by the Vice Minister of Education Du Yubo

On 23th October, the Vice Minister of Education Du Yubo and his entourage visited Macau for commemorative activities for the 95th Anniversary of the Chinese Educators’ Association of Macau, and warm received the leadership of CityU.

Chancellor and Chairman of the Council of CityU Chan Meng Kam firstly extended his heartfelt gratitude to the Ministry of Education of the PRC for their substantial support. He then stated that the kind consideration and great support of the Macao SAR Government, CityU has moved into a new campus and is achieving remarkable progress now. Chairman Chan and Vice Minister Du exchanged ideas on the development strategy of CityU in the future.

Rector Shu Guang Zhang briefed Vice Minister Du on the current development status of CityU, including various faculties, current and future courses. He promised that CityU will continue to keep abreast of development of both the Motherland China and Macau, and will remain dedicated to being a comprehensive university with unique characteristics and contributing to development of Mainland China and Macau.

Vice Minister Du fully acknowledged the rapid development and excellent achievements of CityU in recent years, and he had great faithful in the future development of CityU. He proposed three sincere expectations for CityU: providing more courses featuring unique characteristics and hence become a characterized university, continuing to build a high standard teaching team, and to furthering improve the quality of courses.

The Deputy Director General of the Office for Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Affairs under the Ministry of Education of the PRC, Zhao Lingshan, the Deputy Director of the Department of Moral Education of the Ministry of Education of the PRC, Zhang Wenbin, the Deputy Director of the Bureau for Retired Personnel of the Ministry of Education of the PRC Pan Junqiang, the Secretary of the General Office of the Ministry of Education of the PRC Zhang Yan, the Vice Rector of CityU Aliana Leong, the Vice Rector of CityU Kong Fanqing and the Secretary General of the Council of CityU Robert Chan participated this meeting.