Calendar 2016–17

The University 19 Part 1 office provides events management and consultancy services to assist academic and research units to plan and organize conferences on campus. n n China Links The University has consistently developed academic links and research collaboration with educational and research institutions on the mainland and in Taiwan. Both the scope and the mode of exchange activities have expanded considerably over the years. A variety of academic exchange agreements have been concluded by the University or its academic departments with mainland and Taiwan institutions. These include memoranda for research and teaching collaboration, faculty and student exchange programmes, joint curriculum and academic activities. Major partners of CUHK include the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), 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, National Taiwan University, National Cheng Kung University, University System of Taiwan, and Academia Sinica (AS). Each year CUHK receives about 140 delegations comprising over 1,600 visitors 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 outreach trips led by the Vice-Chancellor or Pro-Vice- Chancellors, staff mobility schemes, conference attendance, guest lecture series, and executive interflow delegations. The University works closely with mainland and Taiwan institutions on a wide spectrum of research collaborations. These include joint research projects and the setting up of over 60 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). CUHK also established Key Laboratories under the State Ministry of Education (MoE), including MoE Key Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine (CUHK–Jinan University), CUHK-Microsoft MoE Key Laboratory of Human- Centric Computing and Interface Technologies, and MoE Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies (Sub-Laboratory, CUHK). CUHK-Sun Yat-sen University Centre for Historical Anthropology, and CUHK-Beijing Language and Culture University Joint Research Centre for Chinese Linguistics and Applied Linguistics were set up as the first two extension units of Key