Annual Report 2006–07

24 Two hundred and forty outstanding mainland undergraduates were admitted through the National Unified Universities and Colleges Entrance Examination System including the top scorers in Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi and Shandong. In the 14 provinces and municipalities which have provided ranking information (the number of candidates in these provinces/municipalities ranges from 0.1 to 0.7 million), 15 students admitted by CUHK ranked among the top 10, and 47 ranked within the top 500. The English proficiency of these students was particularly impressive, with 10 students scoring above the 95th percentile and the average score above the 88th percentile in the English paper. Vice-Chancellor Prof. Lawrence J. Lau led a delegation to Beijing during the period 23–25 April 2007, with the aim of presenting CUHK’s strengths and latest achievements to strategic partners such as Peking University, Tsinghua University, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China, and discussing cooperation initiatives with them. The delegation included Prof. Yang Chen Ning and Prof. Andrew Yao, both Distinguished Professors-at-Large at CUHK, Pro-Vice-Chancellor Prof. Jack Cheng and faculty members from the Faculties of Arts, Engineering, Medicine, Science, and Social Science. During the visit, agreements on university-level collaboration and joint graduate degree programmes between the University and Peking University were renewed. A memorandum of understanding among our Department of Translation, the School of Software and Microelectronics and the Institute of Computational Linguistics of Peking University was signed. Pro-Vice-Chancellor Prof. Jack Cheng led a delegation to Sun Yat- sen University on 8 January 2007. The delegates included faculty members from the Research Institute for the Humanities, the Faculties of Medicine and Science, as well as the Institute of Chinese Medicine. The Department of Biochemistry and the Institute of Chinese Medicine entered into collaborative agreements with the School of Life Science and Guangzhou Quality R&D Centre of Traditional Chinese Medicine during the visit. A total of 140 academic delegations from the mainland, Macau and Taiwan visited the University in the year under review. All these exchanges brought closer academic ties with them. Academic Conferences CUHK remained active in hosting international conferences, forums and talks in 2006–07. The foci of concern ranged from regional to global issues, science to humanities. The ‘Forum on Cross-Strait Economic Development’, hosted by CUHK and initiated by the China Science Center of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, was held in Hong Kong on 30 and 31 March 2007. The 12th Meeting of the Regional Working Group Meeting on Remote Sensing, Geographic Information Systems and Satellite-based 命科學學院及廣州現代中藥質量研究開發中心簽 訂合作協議。 是年度共有一百四十個來自內地、台灣及澳門的 學術團體及機構訪問中大，這些交流活動均有利 於開拓學術合作。 ነ୺ผᘪ 中大過去一年主辦了多個國際學術會議、論壇及 講座，涵蓋地區至世界性題材，科學及人文學科 議題。 由中大主辦、國際歐亞科學院中國科學中心發起 的「海峽兩岸經濟發展論壇」於二零零七年三月 三十至三十一日首度在港舉行。 受國家遙感中心委託，中大太空與地球信息科學 研究所主辦了聯合國亞洲及太平洋經濟社會委員 會遙感、地理信息系統及衞星導航第十二屆區域 工作小組會議、氣象衞星應用和自然災害監測第 十一屆區域工作小組會議及旱災減滅空間信息區 域合作控制地區會議。上述會議於二零零六年九 月二十五至二十八日在中大舉行。 「新鴻基地產諾貝爾獎得獎學人傑出講座系列」 於二零零六年九月十九日及十一月三十日舉行， 講者為一九九八年諾貝爾生理/醫學獎得主路易 斯 ‧ 歇拿奴教授及二零零六年度諾貝爾經濟學獎得 主埃德蒙 ‧ 費爾普斯教授。 其他講座及學術會議包括： 「中國對幾個國際熱點問題的看法及香港在中 國外交中的角色」，中華人民共和國外交部駐 香港特別行政區特派員呂新華先生主講（二零 零六年九月二十二日） 「中國的銀行業——機遇與挑戰」，中國銀行業 監督管理委員會主席劉明康教授主講（二零零 六年九月二十五日） 「振動治療國際研討會」（二零零六年十二月 九至十日） 「機遇與挑戰——中國銀行業的未來」，中國建 設銀行行長張建國先生主講（二零零七年一月 十日） 「原始政體」，一九九三年諾貝爾經濟學獎 得主道格拉斯 ‧ 諾斯教授主講（二零零七年三月 一日） 「第一屆亞太區健康大學會議」（二零零七年 三月八至十日） ‧ ‧ ‧ ‧ ‧ ‧