CUHK joined hands to establish undergraduate dual degree programmes with Tsinghua University. An agreement signing ceremony was held on 26 February with Prof. Rocky S. Tuan, Vice-Chancellor of CUHK and Prof. Qiu Yong, President of Tsinghua signing the agreement on behalf of both sides. The two universities will first launch dual degree programmes in computer science and economics. The first batch of students for these two programmes is expected to get admitted in 2020–2021. Upon programme completion, separate bachelor degree certificates will be issued to students by Tsinghua and CUHK.

The next day, Professor Tuan went on to sign agreement on undergraduate dual degree programme with Prof. Hao Ping, President of Peking University. Dual degree programmes in the two disciplines of Linguistics, and Chinese Language and Literature are expected to be launched in 2019–2020 the earliest. Students will be awarded bachelor degree certificates by CUHK and PKU upon programme completion.