Vice Rector Kong Fanqing Led a Delegation to Attend the 2018 Hilton Greater China and Mongolia University-Enterprise Strategic Cooperation Conference
On October 25, the 2018 Hilton Greater China and Mongolia University-Enterprise Strategic Cooperation Conference was held in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province. Vice Rector Kong Fanqing, Executive Associate Dean Gavin Chau of the Faculty of International Tourism and Management, and Director of the Ph.D. Program Shen Huawen attended the cooperation conference. Vice Rector Kong delivered a speech at the opening ceremony of the conference.
Vice Rector Kong first expressed his respect and gratitude to the Hilton Group for their attention to higher education and support for university-enterprise cooperation. She mentioned that CityU takes “cultivating the applied and practical backbone of society needed by Macao and the region as its mission”, and always pays attention to and promotes the integration of production and education, and university-enterprise cooperation, and strives to optimize the cooperation mode and deepen the connotation of cooperation. She hopes to give full play to the high-level educational advantages of the Faculty of International Tourism and Management and the advantages of Hilton's human resources development and training in the context of the continuous development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and integrate experience learning with students’ professional development. He hopes the two sides will jointly explore and optimize the new model of university-enterprise cooperation and personnel training, and cultivate the application-oriented hotel management professionals needed for the future development of the international hotel industry.
The two-day university-enterprise cooperation conference was attended by more than 200 representatives from dozens of universities across the country. It is expected that the conference can effectively promote the organic connection between education chain, talent chain, industrial chain and innovation chain, form a stable and mutually beneficial cooperation mechanism, and promote the close connection between universities and enterprises.
