Tongji University and CRRC (China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation) signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Beijing on April 6th 2016. According to the agreement, both parties will join hands in building a Sino-US Joint Research and Development Center on Rail Transport Equipment and in promoting a joint project on independent innovation of China’s high-speed maglev technology. They will carry out pragmatic cooperation in such emerging areas as new materials, new energy automobiles, marine engineering equipment, construction machinery and information technology to enhance student education and communication. Yang Xianjin, chairman of Tongji University council, Chen Yiyi, executive vice president of Tongji University, Cui Dianguo, board chairman of CRRC, Xi Guohua, president of CRRC, and Wang Jun, vice president of CRRC, attended the signing ceremony.

The Sino-US Joint R&D Center on Rail Transport Equipment, an important cooperation project among CRRC, Tongji University and UIUC, aims to build a platform of academic and technology exchange in relevant sectors between China and the United States, and to promote the mutual technology development on rail transport equipment between the two countries. According to the strategic cooperation agreement between Tongji University and CRRC, both parties will, based upon their own strengths in cooperation, will make endeavors to further their international cooperation in science and technology, education and training, communication, and an inspection and certification center, and a joint experimental platform through a Railway Research Consortium of American Universities led by UIUC. The two parties will make joint efforts to build an industry-university platform for cultivation of international talents, research and development of high and new technology, technology innovation and technology transfer, joint experiments, third party inspection and certification and personnel exchange to promote the campaigns of One Belt and One Road and Stepping into the World of high-tech facilities made in China.

The two parties also agreed to integrate resources effectively from both countries at the national level, to inherit and make full use of existing investments and common strengths and to integrate other relevant corporations and research institutions for a world leading platform of medium & high-speed maglevs and talent cultivation, independent innovation and industrialization.

At present, Tonji University shoulders the main responsibility of supporting the state-level national research center on maglev transport engineering technology. The center is an important base for the development and research, experiments, industry promotion, and talent cultivation on maglev transportation technology, which undertakes and organizes research on digestion and absorption of maglev transport engineering technology and localization of equipment by drawing on domestic expertise and resources.

Translated by May Language Studio based upon

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