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SCU Delegation Visits Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Hong Kong Jockey Club

Date:2016/06/15

On June 15, 2016, academician Xie Heping, president of SCU, led a delegation to visit Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and reviewed the communication and cooperation progress and achievements with his counterpart Prof. Timothy W. Tong. Both sides also discussed and planned the new contents and direction of their cooperation.

The Institute for Disaster Management and Construction (IDMR), which was established by the two universities after 8-year cooperation, has obtained rich achievements in various aspects such as discipline construction, social services, talent cultivation and cooperative scientific research.

Under the witness of teachers and students of the two universities, both presidents signed the "Memorandum of Understanding on Academic Cooperation and Communication".

Prof. Ke Ruiqing, the newly appointed full-time dean of IDMR, also participated in this visit. She is also the strategic development consultant of SCU and the former deputy director-general of UNESCO. Having assumed senior positions in some world famous universities and international organizations, she has high-profile international vision, profound academic background and rich management experience.

Vice President of SCU, Prof. Yan Shijing, Vice President of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Prof. Angelina YUEN, and the mainland affairs supervisor of HKPU as well as relevant personnel of the Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Affair Office of SCU also attended the meeting.

The delegation also visited the Innovation Building and Innovation Exhibition Center of Hong Kong Polytechnic University and met the representatives of SCU's Alumni Association of Hong Kong.

On that afternoon, the delegation paid a visit to Hong Kong Jockey Club, during which president Xie and Chairman Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges cordially talked with each other, exchanged views and reached consensus concerning the Club's continuous support to the high-end development program of IDMR of SCU –and Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

In collaboration with SCU and Hong Kong Polytechnic University since the Wenchuan Earthquake on May 12, 2008, the Hong Kong Jockey Club helped to establish IDMR of SCU –and Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The Institute has achieved satisfactory results at home and abroad in disaster prevention and reduction discipline construction, personnel training, international scientific research collaboration, construction of international alliance in disaster prevention and reduction, as well as disaster prevention and reduction knowledge dissemination, social services and other aspects.

President Xie, on behalf of SCU, expressed gratitude towards the Hong Kong Jockey Club for its strong support to the Institute's construction and development, and hoped that the Club will continue to support the cooperation between SCU and Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and make concerted efforts to build the Institute into an international example in training of disaster prevention and reduction talents, interdisciplinary integration and teaching scientific research.

Mr. Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges noted that the goal of the Club is to serve the society and the public. It will continue to support SCU and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University to build IDMR into an international demonstration base for scientific research and training of talents in disaster prevention and reduction.

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