Calendar 2020-21

20 Part 1 • General Information Part 1 Each year CUHK receives about 150 delegations comprising over 2,000 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 University’s senior management, staff mobility schemes and conference attendance. 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 State Key Laboratories as approved by the State Ministry of Science and Technology, namely, State Key Laboratory of Translational Oncology, State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, State Key Laboratory of Research on Bioactivities and Clinical Applications of Medicinal Plants, State Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry, and State Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease. 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 only two extension units of Key Research Institutes in Humanities and Social Sciences under the MoE in CUHK and Hong Kong. In recent years, CUHK has also actively initiated or participated in a number of university alliances such as the Guangdong-HK-Macau University Alliance, Alliance of International Science Organization in the Belt and Road Region, the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Alliance of China, China-UK Humanities Alliance for Higher Education, and the Mainland- Hong Kong-Macau Law Education Alliance, University Alliance of the Silk Road, University College Alliance, Beijing–Hong Kong Universities Alliance, Shanghai–Hong Kong University Alliance, Global AI Academic Alliance and Green University Consortium, etc., to enhance partnership and exchange, and expand existing collaborations at university and disciplinary levels by synergizing regional advantages. Student interflow activities are actively promoted at university, college and faculty levels in CUHK. Every year, CUHK sends over 4,000 students to mainland China and Taiwan for short-term activities. Besides, CUHK aspires to create more interactive opportunities in organizing short-term exchange visits and activities. Examples include cultural interflow camps, research placement programmes and visiting student programmes, which have yielded fruitful results in promoting mutual understanding and integration among students.