Strategic Cooperation Agreement Signed between USST and Songjiang District

On December 27th, a ceremony for the signing of a strategic cooperation agreement between USST and Songjiang District Municipal Government was held to further strengthen the cooperation between the two sides, promote exchanges, equal negotiation, and win-win result, and give full play to resource advantages of local government and colleges through the strategy of Yangtze River Delta G60 Scientific Innovation Corridor to build an international first-class highland for biomedicine and medical instrument.

Wang Weihua, Member of Standing Committee of Songjiang District and Vice Governor of the District introduced the Yangtze River Delta G60 Scientific Innovation Corridor construction, comprehensive economic development, and human ecology. At the ceremony, USST President Ding Xiaodong introduced the basic condition of the history, disciplinary advantages, achievement transformation, high-level university construction, international education of USST. Gu Jieyan, Vice Governor of Songjiang District and Liu Ping, Vice President of USST, signed the strategic cooperation framework agreement. State Administration for Market Regulation, Songjiang and School of Health Sciences and Engineering, USST signed the cooperation agreement.

Wu Jianyong, Chair of University Council, USST, extended the thanks to Songjiang District because of its support and care. Focusing on the overall Shanghai industrial layout, both sides meet rare opportunities. He sincerely hopes that both sides put all efforts into building a scientific center and collaborating in the Yangtze River Delta G60 Scientific Innovation Corridor, serving Shanghai and Yangtze River Delta peripheral cities. With this signing as a new beginning, they advance the win-win result in an efficient and pragmatic way, especially in such areas as scientific achievements transformation, technological research and development, talent cultivation, graduates employment. It is believed that with joint efforts, they can achieve a win-win result of Songjiang regional economic development and high-level development.

Cheng Xiangming, Secretary of Party Committee of Songjiang District, delivered the speech. Songjiang pushed ahead the development of advanced manufacture, motivating the labor division and collaboration with peripheral cities, upgrading the industrial competitiveness and level, trying out to build a Yangtze River G60 Scientific Innovation corridor. USST is characterized by its engineering science. These majors like medical instrument, intelligent manufacture, optics and materials science are highly adhesive to Songjiang regional industrial economy. There has been vast industry-learning-research room between the school and district. He hope that both sides take precise and pragmatic dock, and guided by the new development theory, focus on the construction of scientific innovation center with global influences, serve national economic strategy to undertake the major mission imposed on Shanghai by strengthening the collaboration between school and district with manufacture development as a fundamental task.

Before the signing ceremony, the delegation led by USST visited Yangtze River Delta Scientific Innovation Corridor Planning Demonstration Hall, learnt about construction development of G60 scientific innovation corridor, and witnessed a series of science achievements about emerging industry such as artificial intelligence, integrated circuit, biomedicine, high-end manufacture, and new-energy vehicles.