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Sino-Japanese Intercollegiate Cooperation Celebrated at USTC |
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2005-08-14 |
| Sino-Japanese Intercollegiate Cooperation Celebrated at USTC |
A grand ceremony was held on September 13 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of cooperation between USTC and the University of Tokyo and the 10th anniversary of the Sino-Japanese Core University Program. Also on the occasion the Sino-Japanese President Forum was begun.
Present at the event were Mr. Arima Akito, former president of the University of Tokyo, Mr. Takeshi Sasaki, President of the University of Tokyo, Mr. Hiroyuki Abe, President of Tohoko University, Mr. Pan Yunhe, President of ZheJiang University, Mr. Xie Shengwu, President of Shanghai Jiaotong University, representatives from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and relevant leaders from the Anhui Provincial Government. Zhu Qingshi, President of USTC, presided over the Forum. Five presidents delivered speeches on the reform and development of research universities in the 21st century. Prior to the celebrations at USTC, the Japanese delegation was met by Li Lanqing, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Chinese Vice Premier??and Lu Yongxiang, President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
As an initiative to promote the cooperation and exchanges between Chinese and Japanese universities, the two governments in 1979 signed an agreement on the promotion of cultural exchanges between the two countries. Based on the document, USTC signed a cooperative agreement with the University of Tokyo in 1982 to launch 15 cooperative projects covering 5 disciplines of physics, chemistry, precision machinery, information technology and management sciences. In 1993, the scale of the cooperation was extended to cover in environmental science and information science over ten well-known universities of the two countries including Tsinghua University, Osaka University, Shanghai Jiaotong University and Zhejiang University.
It is acknowledged that the unprecedented cooperation between Chinese and Japanese universities has set up a new mode for further international intercollegiate exchanges. At present, the cooperative projects cover the disciplines of environmental science, nano science, information science, high-energy physics and condensed matter physics. | |
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