A management delegation led by Mr. Chan Meng Kam, its Chairman of the Council of City University of Macau (University Council), and its Rector, Prof. Jun Liu, visited the Ministry of Education (MOE) today (14) and was warmly received by Mr. Chen Jie, Vice Minister of Education. Vice Minister Chen Jie commended CityU for its remarkable achievements in recent years. He expressed his hope that CityU would uphold the core principle of “Loving the country, Loving Macao” for higher education, and strive to enhance its operation, teaching quality and development prospects.
The meeting was also attended by Mr. Liu Jin, Director of the Office of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Affairs; Mr. Wu Shixing, Deputy Director of the Department of Higher Education; Mr. Gou Renmin, Second-level Inspector of the Student Department; and Mr. Shu Gangbo, Deputy Director of the Office of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Affairs at the Ministry of Education; as well as management from CityU: Vice Rectors Prof. Kong Fanqing, Prof. Zhou Wanlei, Prof. Ip Kuai Peng, and Prof. Chee Seong Chin; and CityU Council members Ms. Cintia Chan and Ms. Sandy Chan.
Chairman Chan Meng Kam expressed his gratitude to the Ministry of Education for its long-term guidance and assistance to CityU. He said, “CityU has made steady progress and improvement in recent years.” This year marked the 42nd anniversary of CityU. He hoped that with more support from MOE, CityU would reach a higher level and cultivate more applied and practical high-end professionals to serve Macao SAR, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the country.
Rector Jun Liu thanked the officials of MOE for their time and reported the University’s achievements in various aspects in recent years. He said, “CityU has been committed to its vision of being a metropolitan university with ‘Macao Characteristics, China’s Soul and Global Vision’. It strives to fulfil the talent needs of regional and national development, improve discipline structure according to market demand, strengthen industry-academia exchange in the Greater Bay Area and actively cooperate with Portuguese-speaking countries. The University creates a social service platform based on Macao and open to the Greater Bay Area, plays the role of a think tank serving Macao, Greater Bay Area and the country and serves social and industrial development with talent cultivation and scientific research achievements.”
Going forward, CityU continues offering distinctive courses in five major directions: telling China’s story, data science, fintech, big health and city development. It will continue strengthen its role as a competitive metropolitan university with featured research output.
The CityU delegation visited leading universities such as Peking University, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing Language and Culture University and Minzu University of China in the capital to further facilitate cooperation. Agreements have been reached to jointly build academic research institutions, promote exchanges and mutual learning between Macao and the mainland in education and humanities, highlight Macao’s characteristics and contribute to the Greater Bay Area and the country with talent cultivation.
Vice Minister Chen Jie warmly welcomed the CityU management team. He listened to Rector Liu’s work report and future plan and congratulated CityU on its outstanding achievements in recent years. Vice Minister Chen commended CityU for adhering to the core principle of “Loving the country, Loving Macao,” and its vision of basing itself in Macao and opening up to the world, improving education quality and taking the lead in obtaining international accreditations. He noted that the University’s influence has been increasing and encouraged CityU to continue carrying out close cooperation with mainland universities, maximizing their own advantages, promoting exchanges between mainland and Hong Kong and Macao universities and jointly cultivating talents.
Vice Minster Chen Jie has put forward five expectations for the future development of CityU. First, he hopes that the University will seize opportunities and integrate into the Greater Bay Area and national development. He encourages CityU to follow major national policies in various fields, fully leveraging its strengths in tourism management, Portuguese language education, artificial intelligence and data science development to provide talent and intellectual support for the realization of Macao’s strategic positioning of “One Center, One Platform, One Base” through top-notch higher education.
Secondly, Vice Minister Chen hopes that the University will continue to focus on talent cultivation and improve its education quality and operations. The University should fulfill its mission of being based in Macao and serving the region while adhering to the core principle of ‘Loving the country, Loving Macao’ for higher education and developing featured disciplines. He said that CityU should leverage its international platform and advantages to attract excellent teaching resources worldwide, build an internationalized and credible faculty team, recruit high-quality students, and establish a high-level talent training base and platform.
Thirdly, he hopes that CityU will put emphasis on technological innovation while cultivating talents. According to Vice Minister Chen, the University should carry out international academic exchanges, actively participate in international academic organizations, undertake international scientific research projects, build leading scientific research platform, produce higher-level research output and foster high-caliber graduates.
Fourthly, Vice Minister Chen hopes that CityU will further deepen its cooperation with mainland universities and research institutions to form reciprocal collaboration on information and resources, maximize complementary strengths and form a strong alliance to integrate talent cultivation with scientific research.
Lastly, he encourages CityU to serve urban construction and development during its future development. Vice Minister Chen said that this will drive the development of disciplines in fields such as big health, financial technology and information technology to serve social and technological development and talent growth.
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