Calendar 2012–13

18 Part 1 • General Information Part 1 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 and the setting up of more than 40 joint research centres/institutes/laboratories. Currently the University has obtained approval from the State Ministry of Science and Technology to establish four State Key Laboratories Partner Laboratories, namely, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China (CUHK), State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology (CUHK), State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China (CUHK), and State Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry. The University also established key laboratories under the State Ministry of Education (MoE), including CUHK-Jinan University MoE Key Laboratory for Regenerative Medicine, CUHK-Microsoft MoE Key Laboratory of Human- Centric Computing and Interface Technologies, and MoE Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies (Sub-Laboratory, CUHK). The Chinese University of Hong Kong–Sun Yat-sen University Centre for Historical Anthropology was set up as the first extension unit of ‘Key Research Institute in University’ under the MoE at CUHK and Hong Kong. With the aim to forging synergistic research, a tripartite collaboration was developed among CUHK, Tsinghua University and MIT to establish the Tsinghua-MIT-CUHK Joint Center for Theoretical Computer Science. CUHK also collaborated with Nanjing University and Taiwan Central University to establish Cross-Strait Green University Consortium. By teaming up with the best universities in China, CUHK can complement each other, maximize its 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 the lecture series by the academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Academia Sinica, and scholars of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and co-organized the ‘Writers@CUHK’ with ChineseWriters Press Group. Other academic exchange activities included: China Links Seminar, Interflow Programme for Mainland Academic Exchange Executives under the Ministry of Education, Attachment Programme for Executives from Mainland Universities, and Mainland and Taiwan Visiting Scholar Scheme. Important public lectures conducted at CUHK are also broadcast live online at its close partner institutions on the mainland and in Taiwan.