Calendar 2007–08

1 Part 1 • General Information Part 1 and consultants to various mainland institutions and government agencies. Formal exchange agreements have been concluded by the University or its academic departments with various institutions, including the Academy of Military Medical Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Central Conservatory of Music, Chongqing University, the College of Foreign Affairs, the Electronic and Information Science Research Institute in Shenzhen, the Fourth Military Medical University, Fudan University, Harbin University of Technology, Lanzhou University, Nanjing University, Peking University, Renmin University of China, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai NationalAccounting Institute, Shantou University, Shihezi University, Sichuan University, Southwest Jiaotong University, Tianjin University, Tsinghua University, the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, the University of Science and Technology of China, Yunnan University, Wuhan University, Xiamen University, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Zhejiang University, Zhongshan University, as well asAcademia Sinica, Taiwan University, Taiwan Chiao Tung University, Sun Yat-sen University, and Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. In 2006, the University established the State Key Laboratory in Oncology in South China at The Chinese University of Hong Kong which is a scientific research centre at national level focusing especially on cancers of high prevalence in Asia. Its establishment was approved by the Central Government’s Ministry of Science and Technology of China. The University has established a number of multilateral, and cross-disciplinary research centres with its partners such as the CUHK–Zhejiang University Joint Laboratory on Natural Products and Toxicology Research, The Joint Scoliosis Research Centre of The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Nanjing University, the William Mong Eye Centre of Tsinghua University & CUHK, the Shanghai–Hong Kong Development Institute, the Joint Research Centre for Biomedical Engineering, the Epithelial Cell Biology Research Centre, the Joint Laboratory for Regenerative Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong–Ji Nan University, the Joint Laboratory for Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, the Joint Centre for Intelligence Engineering, the Joint Centre for Advanced Photonics Research of The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Zhejiang University, the Joint Laboratory for Geoinformation Science, the Hong Kong Base of Research, Development and Training of the National Remote Sensing Centre of China, and the CUHK/Tsinghua University Joint R&D Program on Chinese Enterprise Internet Operations. These centres play a very important role in promoting high-standard scientific research and enhancing collaborative relationship among the partners. The University, together with the ChineseAcademy of Sciences, has also solicited support from business enterprises to set up the Shanghai–Hong Kong–Anson Research Foundation for CAS and CUHK in Molecular Biosciences. With support from various foundations, the University organizes conferences related to academic development and social changes which are attended by renowned scholars the world over. The University is also in close collaboration with mainland institutions and