UNNC awards first PhDs

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Published: Tuesday, 26 November 2013 09:39

The University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC), the overseas campus of the University of Nottingham, awarded its first PhD degrees to two students last Saturday, who had successfully completed their doctoral studies. They are also the first PhD graduates from overseas campus of foreign universities in China.

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Tech talents talk to local businesses in summit forum

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Published: Monday, 18 November 2013 20:59

The New Material Development Summit Forum was held in Ningbo last Friday. Over 100 PhDs majoring in new material from Shanghai Jiaotong University, China University of Technology, Hefei Industrial University and other colleges and universities participated in the forum and held talks with over 60 local business owners.

The new material industry, together with electronics ＆ IT and bio-engineering, is known as one of the three major high-tech industries in the world. with the advantage in the development and innovation of new materials technology, Ningbo achieved an annual revenue of nearly 100 billion yuan (16.41 billion US dollars) last year in the new material industry, leading the other six national high-tech industry bases in China. To boost the development of the local new material industry, Ningbo invited top universities in the field of materials science to attend the forum. In the mean time, Ningbo listed 60 top local businesses with strong R & D and innovation capability and sent their job demands to the universities. The move aims to offer a platform to match the technologists with local companies for further cooperation.

To promote further understandings and cooperation, the organizers also arranged a visit to local new material companies and institutes for the participants.

Ningbo, Zhejiang University sign a cooperative agreement

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Published: Tuesday, 26 November 2013 09:38

Ningbo Municipal government signed a strategic medical cooperative agreement with Zhejiang University in Hangzhou on Monday, stepping on a new stage in city-university cooperation. Jin Deshui, Party secretary of Zhejiang University, and Lu Ziyue, deputy Party Secretary of Ningbo, attended the inauguration ceremony of Ningbo Hospital of Zhejiang University.

The Partnership between Ningbo and Zhejiang University dates from over 10 years ago and both sides have achieved fruitful results through cooperation in the field of education, training, R&D of science and technology and application. The current project focuses on medical cooperation between the No.1 Hospital of Ningbo and School of Medicine in Zhejiang University. In recent years, School of Medicine of Zhejiang University has been working with relevant health departments in Ningbo in clinical, research, teaching, prevention, etc. and has supplied a large number of medical personnel to Ningbo. The two sides also signed a memorandum of cooperation and 12 cooperation agreements on 12 matching subjects this Monday.

Under the agreement, the No.1 Hospital of Ningbo is officially named as "Ningbo hospital of Zhejiang University". The move also enables the No.1 Hospital of Ningbo to establish links with other hospitals afflicted to Zhejiang University. To support the construction of key disciplines and promote personnel training, clinical management and development as well as the introduction and promotion of new medical technologies in Ningbo, Zhejiang University will establish an academicians (experts) workstation in the No.1 Hospital of Ningbo. The two sides also plan to carry out all-round cooperation on talent training, new technologies and new projects, research platform and a series of interdisciplinary research cooperation projects. The effort aims to substantially improve the medical service as well as medical teaching and research of Ningbo and enable local citizens to enjoy better medical service.

Ningbo started 2nd round of strategic cooperation with Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

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Published: Tuesday, 12 November 2013 10:21

On the afternoon of October 31, a meeting for the signing ceremony for the strategic cooperation with Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and an informal academic meeting of the committee of the academicians opened in Ningbo, and on the day, it was decided to set up the work station of the academicians of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

On behalf of the two parties, Zhao Shengyuan and Lu Ziyue signed the framework agreement on the 2nd round of strategic cooperation. On behalf of the two parties, Li Peilin and Zhang Minghua signed the agreement on the establishment of the Ningbo work station of academicians. About 20 academicians of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences attended the meeting.

5 years ago, Ningbo and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences signed the framework agreement on the 1st round of strategic cooperation. In the past 5 years, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences has cooperated with 13 government departments and 5 institutions of higher education in Ningbo. It has established 17 research centers and 2 research bases in Ningbo. With the cooperation with Ningbo, over 300 joint projects were completed. In cooperation with Ningbo University, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences has educated 62 MA and Ph. D students involving 20 supervisors from the two institutions.

On October 31, the delegate of academicians of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences started the 3-day academic program in Ningbo.