Calendar 2014–15

The University 19 Part 1 and student exchange programmes, and joint academic activities. Major partners of CUHK include the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Fudan University, Nanjing 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 about 180 delegations comprising over 2,500 visitors and visiting scholars from the mainland and Taiwan. 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 outreach visits, 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 50 joint research centres/institutes/laboratories. Currently the University has established five Partner State Key Laboratories as approved by the State Ministry of Science and Technology, namely, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China (Partner Laboratory in The Chinese University of Hong Kong), State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology (Partner Laboratory in The Chinese University of Hong Kong), State Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry and Plant Resources in West China (Partner Laboratory in The Chinese University of Hong Kong), State Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry, and State Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease (Partner Laboratory in The Chinese University of Hong Kong). 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 Humanities and Social Sciences under the MoE in 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. The first cross-strait joint research centre, The Chinese University of Hong Kong– Peking University–University System of Taiwan Joint Research Centre for Language and Human Complexity, has been established to examine human complexity from the perspective of language. CUHK also collaborated with Nanjing University and Taiwan Central University to launch the Cross-Strait Green University Consortium that incorporates green concepts into reseach and education. By teaming up with the best universities in China, CUHK can complement each other, maximize its respective strengths and promote high- standard scientific research.