Bulletin Spring‧Summer 2006

News in Brief 23 Tomson Group Donates HK$3.5 Million to CUHK T he University received a generous donation of HK$3.5 million from the Tomson Group at a ceremony held on 16 January2006attheUniversityAdministration Building. HK$2.5 million will be used to support Tomson Group Scholarships for non-local students and HK$1 million to support the Hong Kong Mood Disorders Centre of the Faculty of Medicine. Mr. Albert Tong ( right ), executive director of Tomson Group, presenting a cheque to Prof. Lawrence J. Lau Shenzhen Government and CUHK Sign Memorandum to Promote Shenzhen-Hong Kong Collaboration M r. Liu Yingli, executive vice- mayor of the Shenzhen Municipal Government, led a delegation of around 70 to visit The Chinese University on 5 June 2006. The delegation includes Shenzhen officials of industry, trade, education, technology, manpower and finance, as well as representatives from the advanced technology sector, higher education sector, and enterprises. On behalf of the Shenzhen Government and CUHK respectively, Mr. Liu Yingli and Prof. Lawrence J. Lau, Vice-Chancellor of CUHK, signed a memorandum of cooperation to promote collaboration between Shenzhen and Hong Kong in education, science research, training of talents, and the establishment of the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Innovation Zone. The contents of the memorandum include: The Shenzhen Government and CUHK will develop a close partnership in higher education to nurture undergraduate, master and doctoral students. TheShenzhenGovernmentwillrecommend talents in medicine, science, education, engineering, and business administration to attend professional training at CUHK. • • The Shenzhen Government will provide CUHK with physical space and other facilitations to set up a permanent organization in the Shenzhen Virtual University Science Park. CUHK will cooperate with Shenzhen’s institutions of higher education, including mutual visits of teachers and student exchange. The Shenzhen Government will promote CUHK’s research in Shenzhen through technology transfer and encourage Shenzhen enterprises to collaborate with CUHK in research and development. Shenzhen and CUHKwill cooperate to take part in key technology research projects of the nation. They will share research facilities and resources. A committeewithmembers fromboth sides will be set up to coordinate and implement the relevant tasks. On the same occasion, Mr. Liu Yingli delivered a lecture on ‘The Shenzhen-Hong Kong Innovation Zone’ while Prof. Lawrence Lau spoke on the ‘Opportunities for Hong Kong-Shenzhen Cooperation’. They analysed how Shenzhen and Hong Kong can advance and mutually benefit through further cooperation. • • • • •