Newsletter No. 500

16 Part 1 • General Information Part 1 University, Peking University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Sun Yat Sen University, Tsinghua University, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Zhejiang University and Taiwan University. Each year the University receives over 150 delegations comprising over 2,500 visitors and visiting scholars from the mainland and Taiwan. At the same time, members of the University go on academic visits to institutions on the mainland and in Taiwan via various channels such as Vice-Chancellor or Pro- Vice-Chancellor led delegations, University Exchange Fund supported visits, conference attendance and executive interflow delegations. The University works closely with mainland institutions on a wide spectrum of research collaborations. These include joint research projects conducted by individual faculties, the setting up of more than 30 joint research centres/institutes/laboratories, as well as the establishment of the State Key Laboratory on Oncology in South China (CUHK) and the State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology (CUHK) as approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology. The University also established two key laboratories approved by the State Ministry of Education, namely, the Key Laboratory for Regenerative Medicine CUHK and Jinan University, and CUHK MoE–Microsoft Key Laboratory of Human–Centric Computing and Interface Technologies. In 2009, the University jointly established the CUHK-BGI Genome Research Centre with Beijing Genomics Institute, Shenzhen. We hope that by teaming up with the best universities in China, we can complement each other, maximize our respective strengths, and promote high-standard scientific research. Besides, the University and its academic departments constantly organize joint academic activities, such as academic symposia, conferences and summits. Examples include an academic symposium jointly organized with the National Natural Science Foundation, the Cross-Strait Forum on the Humanities and Social Sciences co-organized by CUHK, Nanjing University and Taiwan Central University, as well as theAcademicians Lecture Series supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the ChineseAcademy of Engineering. Important public lectures conducted at CUHK are also broadcast live online at its close partner institutions on the mainland and in Taiwan. Student interflow activities are also actively promoted at university, college and faculty levels. CUHK students participate in short-term exchange visits to the mainland and Taiwan and the University also receives student delegations and organizes a summer research placement programme for the mainland postgraduate students. In response to rapid economic growth and the need for high-calibre management executives in Greater China, the University has launched a number of joint postgraduate programmes with its close partners including Shanghai National Accounting Institute, Tsinghua University, Xi’an Jiaotong University, and Taiwan Chang Gung University and SunYat-sen University. The University is also involved in providing training courses to governmental agencies, the business sector and universities on the mainland.