On the morning of February 22, Party Secretary FANG Shouen and President CHEN Jie of Tongji University led a team to Hongkou District, Shanghai, for research. GUO Fang, Secretary of Hongkou District Party Committee, and HU Guangjie, Deputy Secretary of the District Party Committee and District Chief Executive Officer, were there to meet them. The two parties held a discussion on further deepening strategic cooperation between the district and the school.
Work exchange meeting being held between Tongji University and Hongkou District
The meeting was chaired by HU Guangjie, to which GUO Fang and FANG Shouen addressed their respective speeches. Also present at the meeting were Hongkou District Party Committee Deputy Secretary HONG Liu, Standing Party Committee Member and Deputy District Chief Executive Officer ZHANG Wei, Deputy District Chief Executive Officers ZHANG Lei and ZHENG Hong, Tongji University Vice Presidents LV Peiming, TONG Xiaohua and HUANG Xiangfeng, and President Assistant LIU Run.
In her speech, GUO Fang expressed her heartfelt thanks to Tongji University for its contribution to the development of Hongkou District. She remarked that Hongkou and Tongji are geographically close neighbors as well as partners who share mutual prospects for future cooperation. She hoped that Tongji will continue to provide strong intellectual support for the economic and social development of Hongkou by giving full play to the strengths of its wide range of disciplines and talents. Besides, she wished that the two parties would further work together to make Hongkou and Tongji a model of district-school cooperation in Shanghai under the city’s initiative of "learning from each other to be the best”.
FANG Shouen also expressed his sincere gratitude to Hongkou District for the concern, support and assistance given to Tongji University. He stated that as close neighbors bordering each other, Tongji and Hongkou have a long history of extensive, in-depth and fruitful cooperation. In addition, he pointed out the top three priorities for deepening future cooperation between the district and school in a new period of development. First, future district-school cooperation should be closely combined with Shanghai and China’s major development strategies as a whole. Second, consideration should be given to both the current and long-term development in advancing district-school cooperation. Third, a holistic approach should be taken to integrate both cooperation projects and overall cooperation goals to enhance and upgrade the partnership between Hongkou and Tongji.
ZHANG Lei introduced current developments in Hongkou District, the new round of planning and construction projects on the North Bund, and relevant scenarios arising for future district-school cooperation. Afterwards, CHEN Jie gave a brief introduction of Tongji University and proposed several new ideas on cooperation priorities and their possible content. These included how to deepen the district-school cooperation in the future, including jointly strengthening the connection between basic and higher education, co-cultivating football talents, promoting digital transformation among communities, co-constructing design colleges, creating smart design areas and improving regional medical services.
Before the meeting, FANG Shouen, CHEN Jie and their party, accompanied by leaders of Hongkou District, visited the North Suzhou River Waterfront Public Space, CapitaLand Raffles City the Bund, 5G Global Innovation Port and the command hall of Hongkou District Urban Operations Management Center.
FANG Shouen, CHEN Jie and their party visiting the command hall of Hongkou Urban Operations Management Center
FANG Shouen, CHEN Jie and their party visiting the 5G Global Innovation Port
The visit and meeting were also attended by the heads of Hongkou District Committee Office, Government Office, the Committee’s Organization Department, Development Office, Construction and Management Committee, Planning and Resources Bureau, Education Bureau, Science and Technology Commission, Health Commission, Administration of Sports, Urban Transportation Center and other committee offices and bureaus, as well as leaders from Tongji University Party Committee Office, President's Office, Shanghai Research Institute for Intelligent Autonomous Systems Construction Leading Group Office, Assets Management Office, Division for Cooperation in Basic Education Management Committee Office, and School of Medicine.
Written by AI Jiao
Photos by JIANG Ping
Source: https://news.tongji.edu.cn/info/1003/76653.htm
