Wu Yan, vice minister of the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, led a delegation to City University of Macau (CityU). The delegation toured the campus and had an overview of the University’s educational achievements and future plans. Chan Meng Kam, chancellor and council chairman of the University, along with Rector Jun Liu and management team, warmly received the leaders and accompanied the delegation to visit the Sino-Portugal Belt and Road Joint Laboratory on Science of Cultural Heritage Conservation supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology. They also explored the campus environment, teaching facilities, and experienced CityU’s history and its rapid development.
Chen Wei, deputy director of Bureau IV of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council; Yang Dan, director of the Office of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Affairs and the Department of International Cooperation and Exchanges of the Ministry of Education; Zhou Tianhua, director of the Department of Higher Education; Li Yongxian, deputy director of the Education and Youth Affairs Department of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Macao SAR; Kong Chi Meng, director of the Education and Youth Development Bureau, and Teng Sio Hong, deputy director of the Education and Youth Development Bureau, accompanied the visit.
Subsequently, the delegation held a meeting and exchanges with the management team. Kong Fanqing, vice chairwoman of the University Council, along with Vice Rectors Zhou Wanlei, Han Wei, and Ip Kuai Peng, and other Council members Cintia Chan and Sandy Chan attended the meeting.
At the meeting, vice minister Wu praised the educational achievements of CityU in recent years. He hoped that CityU would, as always, adhere to its educational goals and positioning, and integrate these goals into the long-term development plan over the next century, so as to cultivate talents to serve the development of Macao, the Greater Bay Area, and the country.
On behalf of the University, Chancellor Chan Meng Kam warmly welcomed the visit of Vice Minister Wu Yan and his delegation. He expressed his respect and gratitude to the Ministry of Education and the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council for their years of care and support for CityU. Chan continued to say that as a part of strong education country, CityU would fully implement the Master Plan on Building China into a Leading Country in Education with primary task designated to carry out patriotic education and cultivate patriotic talents trusted by the country. He stated that the University would seize the opportunity to establish a regional technology transfer and transformation center in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, promoting the interdisciplinary development and practical applications of big data, artificial intelligence, big health, humanities and social sciences, and tourism.
Rector Jun Liu introduced the educational characteristics and latest development achievements of CityU. As he mentioned, with the vision of developing into a metropolitan university featuring “Macao Characteristics, Chinese Soul, Global Vision”, CityU adhered to the educational mission of “serving Macao and integrating into the Greater Bay Area”, aiming to cultivate high-end applied and practical talents with patriotism and love for both Macao and the country. Rector Liu highlighted that the University would strengthen the construction of interdisciplinary subjects and the integrated development of science and technology, thus establishing an innovative talent-cultivation model.
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Vice Rector Zhou Wanlei, taking the Faculty of Data Science as an example, introduced the specific means and strategic plans of CityU in creating a magnet of international high-end talents. Vice rector Ip Kuai Peng introduced the work of CityU in actively responding to national development plans, seizing the opportunities of the times, and integrating into the educational and scientific development of the Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone.
