Rector Jun Liu chairs Town Hall Meeting for the new academic year, charting development blueprint with faculty

City University of Macau (CityU) held its Town Hall Meeting for Academic Year 2026/2027 today at the Cultural Centre, Taipa Campus. The meeting was chaired by Rector Jun Liu and attended by Vice Rectors Zhou Wanlei and Hui Yew-Foong; Pro-Rectors Rector Wicky So, Robert Chan, Vince Chu; and heads of faculties and departments. At the start of the new academic year, the meeting gathered all faculty and staff to review the university’s development, clarify its direction, listen to their voices, and encourage them to contribute suggestions for the university’s development. 

 At the meeting, Rector Jun Liu noted that CityU closely follows national development strategies and aligned itself with Macao’s “1+4” diversified development strategy and the needs of Hengqin-Macao integrated development. He mentioned that the university has established a development path “rooted in humanities and social science, supported by artificial intelligence, and oriented toward interdisciplinary studies,” and has advanced work across university development, teaching quality, research innovation, industry-academia-research collaboration, international expansion, whole-person education, and social services. Committed to education enhancement through technological innovation and regional development through talent cultivation, Rector Liu mentioned that the university has seen its international academic reputation and global influence rise steadily.