In a move to implement the national innovation-driven development strategy and to foster a robust and sustained partnership with leading domestic companies in the areas of industry-education integration, scientific education convergence, and talent development, CDUT held a signing ceremony for an industry-education cooperation agreement with Huawei and Chinasoft International. The event took place on the afternoon of January 25th at Songshan Lake, Dongguan. Attendees included CDUT President Xu Qiang; Zeng Ying, Vice President and Member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee; Ju Nengpan, Vice President and Member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee; Guo Hongbin, General Manager for Huawei's Sichuan Government & Enterprise Business Dept; and Yan Guodong, President of the Cloud and Intelligent Business Group for Chinasoft International's China Region. The event also featured the inauguration of the Huawei ICT Academy, with CDUT being recognized as the third leading-level ICT Academy in Sichuan by Huawei.
President Xu expressed his heartfelt gratitude for Huawei's ongoing support and assistance to CDUT. He noted that Huawei, as a global technology leader, possesses world-class R&D strength and innovation capabilities. As a "Double-First Class" university, CDUT is dedicated to scientific innovation and talent cultivation. CDUT has distinguished itself with significant achievements in disaster prevention and mitigation, oil and gas resources, and other fields. President Xu expressed hope that this signing ceremony would further deepen the collaboration between academia and industry, promoting the integration of teaching, research, application, and innovation. This collaboration aims to enhance technological innovation capabilities, contribute to the domestic development of high-tech software, and make a greater contribution to the economic and social development of the nation and the region.
Representing Huawei, Guo Hongbin warmly welcomed the delegation led by President Xu. In his speech, he acknowledged that CDUT, as one of the first universities selected for China's "Double-First Class" initiative, has undertaken numerous significant scientific research projects and engineering constructions since its founding in 1956, making substantial contributions to the nation's development. He expressed hope that the signing of this cooperation agreement would mark the beginning of a new chapter of collaboration. Looking ahead, Huawei, in partnership with Chinasoft International, aims to jointly cultivate innovative and practical ICT talents, support multidisciplinary scientific research and high-quality development, and assist CDUT in building a digital campus to achieve higher-quality development.
Yan Guodong stated that after 16 years of industry practice, Chinasoft International has accumulated extensive experience and resources in deep cooperation between schools and enterprises. In the future, Chinasoft International plans to collaborate with Huawei to support CDUT in establishing a specialized industry college themed around information and creative technology. The aim is to continually innovate the model of cooperation between academia and industry, setting benchmark cases in industry practice. The focus will be on cultivating distinctive software talents, deepening the integration of industry and education, driving forward with reform and innovation, and emphasizing characteristic development. This collaborative educational model aims to integrate industry, education, research, transformation, innovation, and application, fostering a complementary, mutually beneficial, interactive, and win-win cooperation. This model is set to become a benchmark for university-enterprise cooperation in Sichuan's higher education.
Zeng Ying, Jiang Chao, and Li Keming represented the three parties in signing the cooperation agreement on stage. Going forward, they will engage in deep collaboration in innovating talent cultivation models, building high-level specialized industry-education integration training bases, establishing industry colleges, creating bases for training dual-qualified teachers, and providing industrialized services. This partnership is aimed at constructing a new ecosystem for the educational industry.
Ju Nengpan and Zhang Zhihua stepped up to inaugurate the leading-level Huawei ICT Academy.
It is reported that since the signing of a university-enterprise cooperation agreement between CDUT and Huawei at the Shanghai HC Conference on September 20th last year, Huawei, in partnership with the Ministry of Education, and CDUT have agreed to seek collaboration in areas including the Huawei-Ministry of Education Intelligent Base 2.0 project, integration of industry and education, convergence of science and education, and digital transformation in education. From October to December, discussions were held with relevant departments such as the College of Computer Science and Network Security. It was decided to focus on talent cultivation, starting with the College of Computer Science as the main collaboration point. The plan is to jointly develop a specialized software college at CDUT, centered around fundamental and embedded software, while also working on the Huawei ICT Academy to co-cultivate innovative ICT talents in fields such as cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things.
On the morning of the 25th, the CDUT leadership team attended a special exchange and sharing session on Huawei's corporate management culture. Jiao Yunting, a training expert from Huawei University, delivered a keynote speech on "Huawei's Corporate Culture and Core Values." Following the session, Xu Qiang pointed out that Huawei's revered spirit of hard work aligns with CDUT's spirit of “fearless climbing and striving upwards,” as well as CDUT's ethos of "Do not fall behind anyone, and strive to be the first." CDUT plans to draw from Huawei's experience, persist in deepening internal reforms, drive development through innovation, continuously improve the level of education and administration, cultivate top-notch innovative talents, and enhance the capacity of higher education to serve the national strategy and local economic and social development.
The delegation also visited Huawei's Education Exhibit and the Sanya Slope Library for an in-depth learning experience. They then proceeded to Southern University of Science and Technology for research and exchange activities, and celebrated the Tea Party of 2024 Spring Festival with alumni from the Guangdong Greater Bay Area Alumni Association.
